{"id":101,"date":"2018-11-16T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=101"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:39:10","slug":"eyes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/eyes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EYES<\/strong><br \/>\n*<br \/>\nIn hurricane season, the spotter<br \/>\nplane flies through the turbulence<br \/>\ninto the eye. Stop signs snap<br \/>\nin the wind, the porch hammock<br \/>\ntwists on eye hooks.<\/p>\n<p>Seed potatoes sprout in the basement.<br \/>\neach pale eye must grow<br \/>\nfrom a cube of the mother<br \/>\nuntil the tendril breaks the earth<\/p>\n<p>**<br \/>\nHer parents shake her shoulder,<br \/>\ncall her name. When her head is still,<br \/>\nclosed eyes roam underneath their lids.<br \/>\nWhen her eyes slit open<br \/>\nthey think she is waking up. <\/p>\n<p>She stares ahead; but does not focus.<br \/>\nEven the therapist thinks<br \/>\nshe is tracking his finger;<br \/>\nbut her pupils,<br \/>\nnarrow columns of black,<br \/>\nstare into beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Margie Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EYES * In hurricane season, the spotter plane flies through the turbulence into the eye. Stop signs snap in the wind, the porch hammock twists on eye hooks. Seed potatoes sprout in the basement. each pale eye must grow from a cube of the mother until the tendril breaks the earth ** Her parents shake&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/eyes-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EYES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}