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bringing up baby<\/strong><\/p>\n again she falls. but nothing’s broken and she seems okay. still i go a little crazy. \u00a0i look around for a nurse. then grab my phone. \u00a0the big screen is turned up super loud. as usual. \u00a0she tells me to be quiet and points at the movie. an old black and white. screwball comedy, circa 1938. she says ‘hush!’ then puts her finger to her lips just in case i don’t get the message. \u00a0my daughter, serene at 25, gives me one of her knowing looks. ‘grandma’s fine’ she says. she sits down right next to her. side by side their faces edge toward the screen. \u00a0they laugh at the same parts. when baby surprises cary grant. or gets a big kiss from kate hepburn. i watch the two of them on the loveseat. my own private screening. heads so close together. there’s no room for me.<\/p>\n mockingbird song \u00a0turning from day to dusk<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Roberta Beary<\/strong>\u00a0 is the haibun editor of Modern Haiku.\u00a0 Her book of short poems, The Unworn Necklace<\/em> (Snapshot Press, 1st hardcover ed. 2011), was named a Poetry Society of America award finalist and a Haiku Society of America prize winner.\u00a0 This is her website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" bringing up baby again she falls. but nothing’s broken and she seems okay. still i go a little crazy. \u00a0i look around for a nurse. then grab my phone. \u00a0the big screen is turned up super loud. as usual. \u00a0she tells me to be quiet and points at the movie. an old black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24031,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions\/24031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}