{"id":71961,"date":"2024-08-11T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.acosopov.com\/%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b5%d0%b7%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:38:31","slug":"at-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/at-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tAt the Lake\t<\/h1>\n\tIcy tranquility. A lake&#8217;s expanse.<br \/>\nSilence. Frozen peace.\nOnly high above<br \/>\ntwo white birds<br \/>\nare bathing in the sunlight.\nBlood beats hotly in their veins;<br \/>\nabove the rushes they play<br \/>\nuntil the western sky darkens.\nSuddenly-weakness and dwindling .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0<br \/>\nAcross an invisible corner of the lake<br \/>\na rippling rose up, faint and light<br \/>\nlike an unknown tremor through the body.<br \/>\nThe water was ever so slowly enlaced,<br \/>\nthen everything settled again into stony calm.\n<p>***<\/p>\nWhen will I stir and well into rage,<br \/>\nso much that I rise, that I reach to every corner,<br \/>\nthat I give to everyone all that I promise,<br \/>\nand like an untamed wave<br \/>\nfrom shore to shore\u00a0<br \/>\nfly in all my strength?\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/merge-with-the-silence-content\/\">Merge with the Silence<\/a>, 1955<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau, <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>At the Lake Icy tranquility. A lake&#8217;s expanse. Silence. Frozen peace. Only high above two white birds are bathing in the sunlight. Blood beats hotly in their veins; above the rushes they play until the western sky darkens. Suddenly-weakness and dwindling .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0 Across an invisible corner of the lake a rippling rose up, faint and&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-71961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71961","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=71961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102613,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71961\/revisions\/102613"}],"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=71961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}