{"id":2713,"date":"2014-12-12T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2014-12-12T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:24:28","slug":"father-raised-chloe-firetto-toomey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/father-raised-chloe-firetto-toomey\/","title":{"rendered":"my father raised me by Chloe Firetto-Toomey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chloe\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

my father raised me<\/h1>\n

by Chloe Firetto-Toomey<\/p>\n

\n

for the first seven years.
\nI remember sitting on his trumpet case watching him
\njazzing valves with apple cheeks.
\nMoss, skipping the drums, throwing a wink.
\nthe room full of heads tapping, smoking.<\/p>\n

Nintendo had just come out
\nhe\u2019d play Mario, I Luigi
\nin dueling rocking chairs, his was wicker, mine, Carebear.
\nLunchables, peanut butter celery
\nreading rainbow bright and<\/p>\n

falling asleep to the sound of Dolphins, Pittsburg Pirates, peanuts husking.
\nMarijuana smoke spooling through my bedroom window-
\nunidentified until age eighteen when the smell took me
\nback to odd socks, orange and pink-
\nhis hands ad-libbing a loose braid.<\/p>\n

The time he caught me peeing standing up
\npolkadot dress up to my chin-
\nthe feeling I\u2019d done something wrong.
\nhis face when I got an F in math
\nbut his voice a soft C.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Born in Bristol, England, my mother is English Sicilian, my father Irish American. Having duel citizenship I spent much of my childhood traveling between Bristol and Miami. I graduated in 2006 with a B.A in Creative Writing from the University of Surrey, London and moved to Miami in 2008. I’m currently in the first year of the graduate program at Florida International University where I hope to obtain an MFA in Poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in Bristol, England, my mother is English Sicilian, my father Irish American. Having duel citizenship I spent much of my childhood traveling between Bristol and Miami. I graduated in 2006 with a B.A in Creative Writing from the University of Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}