{"id":204,"date":"2022-04-05T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:05:06","slug":"butterfly-clips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/butterfly-clips\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Clips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Laura Jeu<\/h5>\n<p>Our third grade love story<\/p>\n<p>Tumbles from Max\u2019s lips<\/p>\n<p>As this fianc\u00e9 of mine recounts<\/p>\n<p>How the monarch\u2019s migration<\/p>\n<p>Begins a thousand miles away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tumbling flower petals<\/p>\n<p>From tall branches fell<\/p>\n<p>Onto my long brown hair<\/p>\n<p>Outside the classroom door<\/p>\n<p>Where two eight year olds,<\/p>\n<p>Transplanted by migration patterns<\/p>\n<p>Neither could control,<\/p>\n<p>At a point of unspoken agreement<\/p>\n<p>Converged with the force<\/p>\n<p>Of a million monarchs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Detangling the petals from long locks,<\/p>\n<p>Max\u2019s careful fingers cradled the wings<\/p>\n<p>Of a plastic clip encasing strands of hair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnie?\u201d scared lips closed around my name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of your butterflies fell out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Closing my hand around his,<\/p>\n<p>I lifted the plastic wings of the clip<\/p>\n<p>To his overdressed collar,<\/p>\n<p>Pinning the butterfly to the crisp fold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, matrimonial ties joined,<\/p>\n<p>Max\u2019s boutonniere sprigs converge<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the tension<\/p>\n<p>Of a twenty year old butterfly clip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Jeu Our third grade love story Tumbles from Max\u2019s lips As this fianc\u00e9 of mine recounts How the monarch\u2019s migration Begins a thousand miles away. &nbsp; Tumbling flower petals From tall branches fell Onto my long brown hair Outside the classroom door Where two eight year olds, Transplanted by migration patterns Neither could control, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}