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A traveler with neither path nor goal,
he sleeps among the winds.
His pure white cheeks are cracked with thirst,
his eyes are hiding fire.
Strange to every earthly shape,
to his own passions strange.
Alone, like a thing unformed,
between people and the sun.
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.