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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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After crossing America ten times without seeing a child drive, the speaker measures his son's map-bound dangers against meadow colors, sea brevity, air quality, and shared vision.
The opening travel boast quickly becomes parental observation, as if the real crossing now belongs to the son rather than the father. Eastern danger is rendered through yearly maps and polluted air, yet the son still knows the colors of the meadows, which keeps perception alive inside threat. The closing insistence that both people look at the same thing and see the same person turns kinship into a matter of synchronized vision.
Ten ground-level crossings of America and back without seeing a child behind the wheel; young son is on every eastern danger on the map, worrying about air quality. He knows the colors of the meadows; they look at the same thing and see the same person.