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In Silence
If you carry a thing unspoken,
a thing that weighs on you and pains you,
bury it in deep silence;
the silence itself will speak it.
Aco Šopov, Merge with the Silence, 1955
Translated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau, The Long Coming of the Fire, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.
Listen to the poem performed in Macedonian by
Sofija Gogova-Vrčakovska and Zorica Georgievska