{"id":102263,"date":"2024-04-09T19:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%b7%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bd-%d0%ba%d1%80%d1%83%d0%b3-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:11:00","slug":"the-golden-circle-of-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-golden-circle-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Circle of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThe Golden Circle of Time\t<\/h1>\n\tAncient star, star of prophecy and miracles,<br \/>\nexplode into the poem, sink into the darkest gloom.<br \/>\nLonger in the blood does this mad light linger,<br \/>\nand this invisible flame without sign or name.\nGhost of a star, star of a cold nightmare,<br \/>\nvanish with all the fates, fall with all the fables.<br \/>\nBeneath this tree of words encrusted with age-old bark,<br \/>\na terrible fire is sparking and hungry roots are burning. \nWho are you who comes here scarred by the dust of a distant era<br \/>\nand with an age that ended long ago never to return-<br \/>\ncoming not in the form of some poor wretch despairing,<br \/>\nbut bringing instead cruel law for yourself and for your clan?\nSound out with a howl of silence, speak with a mute gaze,<br \/>\nin your speech overvaulted with all-powerful knots,<br \/>\nand like a useless soldier with chernozem eyes<br \/>\nlook back at the golden circle and triumphantly burn out.\nAncient star, star of prophecy and miracles,<br \/>\nexplode into the poem, sink into the deepest word,<br \/>\nuntil this mad light no longer lingers in the blood,<br \/>\nthis netherworldly fire, this undying heat.\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<p>\u041f\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u0458\u0430\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u0432\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043d\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043e\u0442 \u043f\u0440\u0432\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0458\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u0431\u0440\u043e\u0458 \u043d\u0430 <em>\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u041c\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0434\u043e\u043d\u0438\u0458\u0430<\/em>, \u0432\u043e 1970 \u0433\u043e\u0434., \u0441\u0442\u0440. 16. (+\u0421\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Circle of Time Ancient star, star of prophecy and miracles, explode into the poem, sink into the darkest gloom. Longer in the blood does this mad light linger, and this invisible flame without sign or name. Ghost of a star, star of a cold nightmare, vanish with all the fates, fall with all&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-102263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102263","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=102263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102401,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102263\/revisions\/102401"}],"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=102263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}