{"id":81629,"date":"2024-08-13T02:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%b8%d0%bb%d1%83%d0%b7%d0%b8%d1%98%d0%b0\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:59:41","slug":"illusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tIllusion\t<\/h1>\n\tNight. In the night, scales of moonlight glisten.<br \/>\nFrom the mountain descends voiceless distance.\nI have come here alone to the mountain at night.<br \/>\nBehind me lies a world, an anguish now past.\nListen-something is whispering secretly in the wood:<br \/>\nAll you have desired, all is understood.\nAnd here beneath the mountain, down in this valley,<br \/>\nthe distance is breathing so close I can feel it.\nIn an instant&#8230; all vanishes. Dream and pathway. Distance.<br \/>\nI am alone. Above the trail, scales of moonlight glisten.\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>Illusion Night. In the night, scales of moonlight glisten. From the mountain descends voiceless distance. I have come here alone to the mountain at night. Behind me lies a world, an anguish now past. Listen-something is whispering secretly in the wood: All you have desired, all is understood. And here beneath the mountain, down in&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-81629","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81629","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=81629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102725,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81629\/revisions\/102725"}],"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=81629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}