{"id":738,"date":"2006-11-03T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1991\/8-25-91-am-eyecheck\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:20:13","slug":"8-25-91-am-eyecheck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=738","title":{"rendered":"8-25-91 A.M. Eyecheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=738\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>8\/25\/91<br \/>\nColumbus,Ohio<\/p>\n<p>A.M. Eyecheck<\/p>\n<p>Geese of my childhood<br \/>\nMid morning shuffle<br \/>\nGraze like cattle or so it seems<br \/>\nTo tired eyes squinting in the haze<br \/>\nNot quite right<br \/>\nLike a fish on a bicycle<br \/>\nOr a dog in a tree<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s what I see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They wander along,elderly on the boardwalk<br \/>\nAdmiring the water that man has put there<br \/>\nAnd once they step wet,down into it waiting<br \/>\nThe doubtful imposition fades&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Unknown into known,new into old<br \/>\nMy child wants to run and scatter them out<br \/>\nWings cutting the morning,sky swelling with flight<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not alone as they walk to the water&#8217;s edge<br \/>\nStealthy movement corrupted by stone splashes,ripples<br \/>\nSmiles and second attempts still lay ahead<br \/>\nAnd as the children leave,the geese do the watching<br \/>\nThe joggers and drivers they come to expect<br \/>\nPerhaps if they saw me with my nose in the grass<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d wonder as I do if something was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/25\/91 Columbus,Ohio A.M. Eyecheck Geese of my childhood Mid morning shuffle Graze like cattle or so it seems To tired eyes squinting in the haze Not quite right Like a fish on a bicycle Or a dog in a tree But that&#8217;s what I see&#8230; They wander along,elderly on the boardwalk Admiring the water that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":724,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-bU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/738\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}