{"id":102235,"date":"2024-08-17T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%83%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%9a%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%82\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:46:20","slug":"the-fires-retreat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-fires-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire\u2019s Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThe Fire&#8217;s Retreat\t<\/h1>\n\tThe fire is silent, turned to bark,<br \/>\nbeneath the roar of an age-old wood.\nPredator and victim of its prey,<br \/>\non a white flagpole it hoists the day.\nThe fire is silent, its flame dried out,<br \/>\nbeneath a lake hard as rock.\nThe fire is silent beneath the grim roar<br \/>\nand blows in the air like ash from an urn.\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 Retreat The fire is silent, turned to bark, beneath the roar of an age-old wood. Predator and victim of its prey, on a white flagpole it hoists the day. The fire is silent, its flame dried out, beneath a lake hard as rock. The fire is silent beneath the grim roar and blows&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-102235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102235","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=102235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102395,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102235\/revisions\/102395"}],"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=102235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}