{"id":102225,"date":"2024-08-17T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%9c%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%82\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:45:47","slug":"the-fires-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-fires-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire\u2019s Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThe Fire&#8217;s Night\t<\/h1>\n\tBeneath nine nights a ring of stars explodes.<br \/>\nBut the fire is silent. A beech-tree stump.\nLike a hunter lurking in a hidden blind,<br \/>\nit has been here forever, age after age.\nLike a dry fungus, like a black omen,<br \/>\nit endures beyond time and from season to season.\nLeaves are igniting like violet incense.<br \/>\nBut the fire is silent. Black. Shadowy. Earthen.\nLike violet incense the leaves ignite.<br \/>\nBut the fire is silent. In the sinewy root, night.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/reader-of-the-ashes-content\/\"><em>Reader of the Ashes<\/em><\/a>, 1970<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/\"><em>The Long Coming of the Fire<\/em><\/a>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fire&#8217;s Night Beneath nine nights a ring of stars explodes. But the fire is silent. A beech-tree stump. Like a hunter lurking in a hidden blind, it has been here forever, age after age. Like a dry fungus, like a black omen, it endures beyond time and from season to season. Leaves are igniting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":98423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102393,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102225\/revisions\/102393"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}