{"id":970,"date":"2017-07-25T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2017-07-25T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:32","slug":"poem-pass-not-that-way-again-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;Pass Not That Way Again&#8221; (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=556392528\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/track=203812816\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/godheadscope.bandcamp.com\/album\/before-the-turn\">Before the Turn by Cindervoice<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">\u201cWhere one can no longer love,\r\nthere one should pass by.\u201d\r\nThough memory aches for former shapes,\r\npass not that way again.\r\n\r\nHuman curves and fingerprints\r\nshould not be cast in corners.\r\nThe huddled form is not for you.\r\nPass not that way again.\r\n\r\nWhere surprise has fallen mute,\r\nthere no gods will grow.\r\nThose spirits have all lost their breath.\r\nRelease their spent air from your lungs.\r\n\r\nFever dreams too tightly held\r\ndeserve only your tears.\r\nLay to ground their will to death.\r\nPass not that way again.\r\n\r\nSteps ahead, voices resound\r\nthat beckon us to being,\r\nforgive us our misshapen pasts,\r\nand welcome us in changing.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhere one can no longer love,\r\nthere one should pass by.\u201d\r\nThough memory turns to clasp cold lips,\r\npass not that way again.<\/pre>\n<p><em>Published as lyrics for Cindervoice\u2019s <strong>Before the Turn<\/strong> LP, 2010. Includes quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Walter Kaufmann translation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Turn by Cindervoice \u201cWhere one can no longer love, there one should pass by.\u201d Though memory aches for former shapes, pass not that way again. Human curves and fingerprints should not be cast in corners. The huddled form is not for you. Pass not that way again. Where surprise has fallen mute, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem: &#8220;Pass Not That Way Again&#8221; (2010)<\/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":[59,14],"tags":[60,11,19],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cindervoice","category-poetry-lyrics","tag-cindervoice","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}