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what if war were measured in baby teeth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Lisa Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n the kiloton of bombs all those little enamel of planes raining down tooth fairies flying late obols under tongues all the baby teeth stacking a diplomatic solution sore gums flushed cheeks smile all signatories agree what if war were measured in baby teeth by Lisa Kelly the kiloton of bombsdropped in baby teeththe incendiary grief of lives lost in baby teeth all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":17500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
dropped in baby teeth
the incendiary grief of lives
lost in baby teeth<\/p>\n
baby teeth so pearly
like the gates of heaven
dropping out of mouths<\/p>\n
baby teeth homes destroyed
by baby teeth a child hit by
a precision-guided baby tooth<\/p>\n
in the night to the bedsides
of collateral damage leaving
coins under pillows<\/p>\n
in exchange for baby teeth
silver caskets for baby teeth
for mothers to remember<\/p>\n
up into cairns
how many baby teeth
it took to negotiate<\/p>\n
the treaty of baby teeth
reparations for
teething symptoms<\/p>\n
rubbing ears dribbling
and drooling towards
a binding gappy-toothed<\/p>\n
to be photographed with
the bloody making way
for adult teeth to erupt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"