{"id":58,"date":"2007-01-15T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=58"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:08:37","slug":"eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EYES<\/strong><br \/>\n*<br \/>\nIn hurricane season, the spotter<br \/>\nplane flies through 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<br \/>\nin the basement.<br \/>\nEach pale eye growing<br \/>\nfrom a cube of the mother<br \/>\nuntil tendril breaks earth<br \/>\n*<br \/>\nHer parents shake her shoulder,<br \/>\ncall her name. Closed eyes roam<br \/>\nunderneath their lids.<br \/>\nHer eyes slit open,<br \/>\nthey think she is waking up. <\/p>\n<p>Even the therapist thinks<br \/>\nshe is tracking his finger;<br \/>\nbut her pupils,<br \/>\nnarrow columns of black,<br \/>\nstare into beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EYES * In hurricane season, the spotter plane flies through 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 growing from a cube of the mother until tendril breaks earth * Her parents shake her shoulder, call her&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/eyes\/\" 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":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapbook","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}