{"id":83349,"date":"2024-08-13T05:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T03:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%ba%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:06:44","slug":"nightfall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/nightfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightfall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tNightfall\t<\/h1>\n\tSleep now. The stone is asleep. Sleeping, too, the waters.<br \/>\nBehind the hills of your eyebrows<br \/>\nin the shimmering, timid fish of your eyes-<br \/>\nthe setting of the sun.\nSleep now. The stone is asleep. Sleeping, too, the waters.<br \/>\nOn the smoky beam of your thoughts<br \/>\nas on the benches in a village house-<br \/>\nthe well-worn toys of the day.\nSleep now. The stone is asleep. Sleeping, too, the waters.<br \/>\nAbove the apple tree of your dreams,<br \/>\nabove the bright-trembling apple tree-<br \/>\nthe stars of dawn.\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\/not-being-content\/\">Not-Being (Nebidnina)<\/a><\/em>, 1963<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&#8220;Nightfall&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/if-there-isnt-enough-light-for-you\/\">If There Isn&#8217;t Enough Light For You<\/a>&#8221; recorded at Heliconian Hall, Toronto, February 13th, 2025.<br \/>\n<strong>Music by Michael Spiroff<\/strong><br \/>\nAna\u00efs Kelsey-Verdecchia (soprano soloist), Christopher Bagan (piano), Andrew Downing (double bass), Alison Beckwith (soprano), Anika Venkatesh (alto), Larry Beckwith (tenor), Dion Mazerolle (bass).\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXpwjNg2M3o?si=B0D7oUQgn-MThJ3T\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/zazoruva-concert-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore information about the concert &#8220;Zazoruva&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightfall Sleep now. The stone is asleep. Sleeping, too, the waters. Behind the hills of your eyebrows in the shimmering, timid fish of your eyes- the setting of the sun. Sleep now. The stone is asleep. Sleeping, too, the waters. On the smoky beam of your thoughts as on the benches in a village house-&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-83349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83349","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=83349"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101897,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83349\/revisions\/101897"}],"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=83349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}