{"id":102309,"date":"2024-08-18T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%9c%d0%b5%d0%bd-%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%b2%d0%be%d1%80\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:14:25","slug":"night-spring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/night-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tNight Spring\t<\/h1>\n\tStaring<br \/>\ninto a spring at night<br \/>\nas into a face bewitched,<br \/>\nwhat did you find,<br \/>\nwhat did you discover,<br \/>\nwhat fires did you put out,<br \/>\nyet did not hear<br \/>\nthe bird as it fell<br \/>\nstruck by its own cry,<br \/>\nor by the fatally intoxicating<br \/>\nincense of the water.\nStaring<br \/>\ninto this mirror<br \/>\nthat rivets your heart,<br \/>\nto what depths did you descend,<br \/>\nwhat water slaked your thirst,<br \/>\nwere you captivated by the sound<br \/>\nof some new magic,<br \/>\ndid you step from a stone of madness<br \/>\ninto a dead sea,<br \/>\nso that now<br \/>\nin a spring at night<br \/>\nas in your own image<br \/>\nyou search<br \/>\nfor that flier who will<br \/>\ncruelly judge you.\nAnd you see nothing,<br \/>\nnor do you hear<br \/>\nthe nightingale<br \/>\nthat calls to you<br \/>\nand in your blood<br \/>\nawakens hell.\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>Night Spring Staring into a spring at night as into a face bewitched, what did you find, what did you discover, what fires did you put out, yet did not hear the bird as it fell struck by its own cry, or by the fatally intoxicating incense of the water. Staring into this mirror that&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-102309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102309","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=102309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102409,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102309\/revisions\/102409"}],"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=102309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}