{"id":261,"date":"2024-12-10T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:25:12","slug":"baby-eyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-7\/baby-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">by Victoria Bell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if we lost our baby eyes instead of teeth?<br \/>\nMaybe they would crystallize when we were 12<br \/>\nAnd we could watch the world become a kaleidoscope of emotion as objects lost their<br \/>\npermanence<br \/>\nAnd then\u2014faded away.<br \/>\nThen we would live in darkness until a pair of eyes that knew Enough<br \/>\nCould grow and let us see the world<br \/>\n\u2014Correctly.<br \/>\nWhat if we could hold our innocence in our hands?<br \/>\nMaybe we could trade eyes<br \/>\nAnd I could see the world like you did.<br \/>\nI could see flowers burst into existence with the anticipation of a child,<br \/>\nAnd feel how you used to push yourself<br \/>\nUnder<br \/>\nIn the pool<br \/>\nSo, you faced the sky<br \/>\nAnd could see the raindrops falling\u2014<br \/>\nIcy and perfect pieces of the sea visiting the public pool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-7\/toc-7\/\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Victoria Bell &nbsp; What if we lost our baby eyes instead of teeth? Maybe they would crystallize when we were 12 And we could watch the world become a kaleidoscope of emotion as objects lost their permanence And then\u2014faded away. Then we would live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":247,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}