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Learning to Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n Just take the mountain curves as fast as surface conditions permit or yellow center line allow concentrating on my desire to learn What he meant to tell me, that all roads take caution, pose impossible to anticipate at any age. toward home that summer I was sixteen. beyond anything you could think you wanted, Even as you sometimes thrilled <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ed Higgins<\/strong>‘ poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including: Monkeybicycle, Tattoo Highway, Triggerfish Critical Review, Word Riot<\/em>, and Blue Print Review,<\/em> among others. He and his wife live on a small organic farm in Yamhill, OR where they raise a menagerie of animals. Ed teaches writing and literature at George Fox University, south of Portland, OR. USA, and is Asst. Fiction Editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction,<\/em> an Irish online journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learning to Drive Just take the mountain curves as tightly to the inside and as fast as surface conditions permit and the road\u2019s edge or yellow center line allow my father was saying, concentrating on my desire to learn all the secrets of driving. What he meant to tell me, or so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10990,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions\/10990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nas tightly to the inside and<\/p>\n
\nand the road\u2019s edge<\/p>\n
\nmy father was saying,<\/p>\n
\nall the secrets of driving.<\/p>\n
\nor so I imagine, was stay alert,<\/p>\n
\non-coming lessons, deep curves<\/p>\n
\nThe easy lesson wound down Woodside Road<\/p>\n
\nThe roads coming made you drive straighter,<\/p>\n
\nsometimes away from wherever you intended to go.<\/p>\n
\nto their terrible ride.<\/p>\n