{"id":102811,"date":"2024-08-13T03:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%b6%d0%b8-%d0%bc%d0%b8-%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b1%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:23:38","slug":"call-me-sky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/call-me-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tCall Me Sky\t<\/h1>\n\tCall me-Sky. My sky.<br \/>\nCall me-Sky of the silence.<br \/>\nAnd I, a sapling in the dark forest of the blood,<br \/>\nwill uproot myself and all this age-old weakness,<br \/>\nand rising high, high, high,<br \/>\nas high as a warm human eye,<br \/>\nwill become sky-your sky.<br \/>\nI will become the sky of a Morning Star.\nBut do not say I am weak,<br \/>\ndo not say I am not strong enough<br \/>\neven to look the grass in the eye,<br \/>\ndo not say that of all the stalks of grass<br \/>\nonly the most fragile hum inside me.<br \/>\nKeep it hidden and, today, hold back the truth<br \/>\nfor an even more today tomorrow of mine.\nCall me-Sky. My sky.<br \/>\nCall me-Sky of the silence.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-wind-carries-content\/\">The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather<\/a>,<\/em> 1957<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/\">The Long Coming of the Fire<\/a><\/em>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call Me Sky Call me-Sky. My sky. Call me-Sky of the silence. And I, a sapling in the dark forest of the blood, will uproot myself and all this age-old weakness, and rising high, high, high, as high as a warm human eye, will become sky-your sky. I will become the sky of a Morning&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-102811","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102811","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=102811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102817,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102811\/revisions\/102817"}],"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=102811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}