{"id":26913,"date":"2025-04-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26913"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:51:50","slug":"capturing-campus-birthday-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/04\/06\/capturing-campus-birthday-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Campus: Birthday Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Birthday Card<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was your birthday like every year<\/p>\n\n\n\n

colored pencils to paper <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(what knives are to skin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you told me green was your favorite color<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014you didn\u2019t have one<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that now<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

but I didn\u2019t know that then<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so I tore up the backyard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ripped leaves from maple trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

scooped moss in mighty handfuls <\/p>\n\n\n\n

fistfuls, pocketfuls<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to give to you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you lied because colors don\u2019t shine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for old shuttered eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

closer to glaucoma than clarity <\/p>\n\n\n\n

bleeding monochrome <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the dull and dim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the world without harpsichord tones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on rolling hills born into richness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of flavor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of color worth witnessing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on the page and in your palms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you are running out of birthdays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birthday Card It was your birthday like every year colored pencils to paper  (what knives are to skin) you told me green was your favorite color \u2014you didn\u2019t have one I know that now but I didn\u2019t know that then\u2014 so I tore up the backyard ripped leaves from maple trees scooped moss in mighty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":25727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,2034,2157,1520,34,281,15,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27186,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913\/revisions\/27186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}