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Bluest Eyes<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was born the wrong sex on the opposite coast of where I was conceived,<\/p>\n connived, contrived to be brought into this world. God told my father many<\/p>\n things about me that proved to be lies. God, my nemesis brought the belt<\/p>\n down on me, humbled and bloodied me. My mother was happy to see me,<\/p>\n still tells me I have the biggest blue eyes in the world. Even after the tumor<\/p>\n wiped clean her memory of family vacations in Glacier National Park when<\/p>\n the bears walked through our camp each night, or the hundred events of<\/p>\n being a teenager, she still remembers the day they put me in her arms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jessica Lindsley<\/strong> grew up in North Dakota before the oil boom. Her work has been published in the Smoking Poet, Blackwood Press, Thirteen Myna Birds, DEAD SNAKES, cryopoetry,<\/em>\u00a0 and other publications. Tumblr:\u00a0http:\/\/jessicalindsley.tumblr.com\/?og=1<\/a>\u00a0Twitter:@LindsleyJess<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bluest Eyes I was born the wrong sex on the opposite coast of where I was conceived, connived, contrived to be brought into this world. God told my father many things about me that proved to be lies. God, my nemesis brought the belt down on me, humbled and bloodied me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","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=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}