{"id":2001,"date":"2021-09-15T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T22:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:49:00","slug":"flew-it-all-around-by-matthew-lippman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/flew-it-all-around-by-matthew-lippman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFlew It All Around\u201d by Matthew Lippman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFlew It All Around\u201d by Matthew Lippman<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

My kid did my hair this morning.
She got her fingers in my mop
and fucked it up.
Made all these spikes and railroads trestles.
Threw in some twirls and blue paint.
I had spent an hour with the brush. Didn\u2019t matter.
She came upstairs and got her hands in there,
did some modern dance acrobatics on it.
When she was done
it was a garbage dump,
a forest of brutalized pines.
She said, Your head\u2019s a forest.
She was right. She\u2019s nine.
I wanted to say,
This is a metaphor for the world, the house,<\/em>
the whole neighborhood<\/em>,
but she already knows.
Everything she knows, she knows.
Honestly, I thought I was a cool dad
for being cool
with the cool kid
messing up daddio\u2019s hair.
This was just me feeling good about myself, hot stuff cool.
Honestly, I wish a morning like this for everyone, for everything\u2014
the parking lots and the playgrounds,
the school yards and classrooms,
the boardrooms,
the forests and the streams.
That we all can wake up and have someone come upstairs to fuck up our hair
for fun.
All that good stuff right before breakfast,
right before we step outside into the sunshine
and it smashes our face to pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/FlewitAllAroundLippman.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":25234,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38839,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/38839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}