{"id":102243,"date":"2024-08-17T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d1%99%d1%83%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%82\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:46:49","slug":"the-fires-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-fires-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire\u2019s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThe Fire&#8217;s Love\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>To S. J<\/p>\nBlank limestone falls across our faces.<br \/>\nLike a bird the fire wallows beneath it.\nThe fire wallows in a cage of time.<br \/>\nBlack seed sprouts in the midnight sun.\nThe fire steals from itself eternal fire<br \/>\nto offer its love upon a dagger.\nBurn, midnight sun, do not stop burning.<br \/>\nPrometheus comes, alone and wounded.\nLike a dark bird of prey, like hungry soil,<br \/>\nhe seizes the fire, is burned and falls.\nThe song like fool&#8217;s gold melted away.<br \/>\nThe road to man is longer than life.\nThe fire steals from itself eternal fire<br \/>\nto offer its love upon a dagger.\nSilent, silent, be silent in the young firwood.<br \/>\nFire and furnace. Fire and furnace.\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\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Manuscrits-Ljubovta-na-ognot_BR.jpg\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Manuscrits-Ljubovta-na-ognot_BR.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire's Love - manuscripts\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"482\" width=\"680\" title=\"Manuscrits Ljubovta na ognot_BR\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Fire&#8217;s Love &#8211; manuscripts\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fire&#8217;s Love To S. J Blank limestone falls across our faces. Like a bird the fire wallows beneath it. The fire wallows in a cage of time. Black seed sprouts in the midnight sun. The fire steals from itself eternal fire to offer its love upon a dagger. Burn, midnight sun, do not stop&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-102243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102243","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=102243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102397,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102243\/revisions\/102397"}],"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=102243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}