{"id":306,"date":"2025-12-01T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=306"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:25:58","slug":"tangerines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-8\/tangerines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangerines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">by Eva<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-333\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-art-725x1024.png\" alt=\"gold tangerine stamps in a multilayered circle\" width=\"696\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-art-725x1024.png 725w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-art-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-art-768x1084.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-art.png 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-poem-721x1024.png\" alt=\"four blue tangerine stamps, vertical, next to text (translation below)\" width=\"696\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-poem-721x1024.png 721w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-poem-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-poem-768x1091.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2025\/12\/tangerines-poem.png 773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n[translation]\n<p>one morning<br \/>\ntangerines fell on the snow<br \/>\nthey burned it down to the clay<br \/>\nand to the core<\/p>\n<p>melted through the rock<br \/>\nthousands of miles deep<br \/>\nthere\u2019s citrus zest in center now<br \/>\nand mercury<\/p>\n<p>scientists mined a slice<br \/>\nand x-rayed<br \/>\nsick dried flowers inside<br \/>\nare imprisoned<\/p>\n<p>for a long time<br \/>\nand in vain<br \/>\ntangerines share smoldering<br \/>\nof the earth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eva is a master\u2019s student of the Free Creative Writing program in Free University, born in Irkutsk, Siberia. Eva chose not to write her real name, work, and education because there is a risk for all the students. Eva loves to create poetry with a typewriter Olivetti ET personal 510-II which was found in her family house.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-8\/toc-8\/\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eva &nbsp; [translation] one morning tangerines fell on the snow they burned it down to the clay and to the core melted through the rock thousands of miles deep there\u2019s citrus zest in center now and mercury scientists mined a slice and x-rayed sick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":287,"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-306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}