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Oh this beauty
Oh this beauty, oh this beauty,
this wild-in-the-blood howling—
it tears, grabs, cuts, carries me like an avalanche,
eternally hidden and eternally unveiling.
No—no need for rest, no need for calmness,
the entire field is bursting with health,
and in my blood a radiant dawning
from this extravagance, from this beauty.
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.