{"id":143608,"date":"2020-03-16T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=143608"},"modified":"2020-03-16T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:15:58","slug":"never-childhood-to-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/16\/never-childhood-to-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Childhood to a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On reading Marianne Boruch during <small>COVID<\/small>-19<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adobestock_238619268.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-143610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adobestock_238619268-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adobestock_238619268-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adobestock_238619268-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adobestock_238619268-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cNever childhood to a child,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4nMADAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT57&amp;lpg=PT57&amp;dq=%22Never+childhood+to+a+child%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=DoS26BDv_P&amp;sig=ACfU3U1-yOQFWFaARhx5_JWNV8c0E7_LtA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi2xamrx5_oAhXhc98KHf06AGQQ6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Never%20childhood%20to%20a%20child%22&amp;f=false\">Marianne Boruch says<\/a>, and I think of my daughter when she\u2019s sad, how she wanders around the front yard with her hands in the pockets of her coat. The distance between myself at the kitchen window and her out in the yard. Never childhood to a child. Going to the door and calling out will only annoy her. And yet, she will allow herself to be watched\u2014she knows I\u2019m watching\u2014so long as I make no attempt to close the distance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Peter Orner\u2019s most recent book is\u00a0<\/em>Maggie Brown &amp; Others<em>. Read his short story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7367\/ineffectual-tribute-to-len-peter-orner\">Ineffectual Tribute to Len<\/a>,\u201d in our Spring 2019 issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On reading Marianne Boruch during Covid-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Never Childhood to a Child by Peter Orner<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 16, 2020 \u2013 On reading Marianne Boruch during Covid-19\" \/>\n<meta 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