{"id":97969,"date":"2024-06-28T19:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%82%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%be-%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:28:13","slug":"ninth-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/ninth-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tNinth Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tThis is that place, that untraversable body,<br \/>\nsprawling out like a voiceless hunger.<br \/>\nThese are all the lights and the waters<br \/>\nof this city built within walls.\nUp on the roof an eternal dove is cooing-<br \/>\nsome marvelous tale of silver and bread . . .<br \/>\nDid you ever discover that word, that name,<br \/>\nwhich throbs in the marrow of every rib?\nDid you ever discover that terrible secret,<br \/>\nthat life which has nowhere yet been lived?<br \/>\nDid you ever discover how painful the lights are<br \/>\nabove this body, which flows without flowing?\nThis is that place, that untraversable body,<br \/>\nthat hunger which sprawled it out and gave it birth.<br \/>\nThis is that city built here within walls,<br \/>\nwithin walls built of light and water.\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<p>Read the cycle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/prayers-of-my-body-cycle\/\">Prayers of My Body<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninth Prayer of My Body This is that place, that untraversable body, sprawling out like a voiceless hunger. These are all the lights and the waters of this city built within walls. Up on the roof an eternal dove is cooing- some marvelous tale of silver and bread . . . Did you ever discover&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-97969","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97969","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=97969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101881,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97969\/revisions\/101881"}],"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=97969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}