{"id":1007,"date":"2017-07-25T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2017-07-25T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:31","slug":"poem-a-moth-blending-into-walls-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;A Moth Blending Into Walls&#8221; (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">Bouncing around the light,\r\nspace bends and beckons\r\ntoward a dark end\r\nwith wings become singed.\r\n\r\nShe flew in through the hallway;\r\ncircled twice around the room.\r\nA strange fear did set in,\r\nand she darted to the wall.\r\n\r\nThrough eyes upon her wings,\r\nshe surveyed her locale,\r\nabdomen pressed close to stone,\r\nleaving dusty marks not seen.\r\n\r\nThrough eyes upon her wings,\r\nshe watched as another entered:\r\na fly possessed of purpose,\r\nunfolding space toward the light.\r\n\r\nFrom her mark upon the wall,\r\nher wings did see a spark:\r\nthe fly cascaded downward\r\nin a slight pillar of ash.\r\n\r\nThe moth clung tighter to her mark\r\nand closed her eyes, averted her gaze\r\nfrom the center: the irresistible gravity\r\nof the spider in the light.<\/pre>\n<p><em>Published as lyrics for Matt Rosin and the Dead Raven Choir\u2019s <strong>Fire Mouth<\/strong> collaborative LP.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bouncing around the light, space bends and beckons toward a dark end with wings become singed. She flew in through the hallway; circled twice around the room. A strange fear did set in, and she darted to the wall. Through eyes upon her wings, she surveyed her locale, abdomen pressed close to stone, leaving dusty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=1007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem: &#8220;A Moth Blending Into Walls&#8221; (2005)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,11,19],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-lyrics","tag-fire-mouth","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}