{"id":97989,"date":"2024-06-28T19:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%81%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":"2026-01-12T03:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:29:22","slug":"tenth-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/tenth-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tTenth Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tThis is that place, that captive beauty,<br \/>\nthat miraculous death from blue and white,<br \/>\nfrom the blue and white in the eyes of the wind;<br \/>\nthis is that brutish thing, that body.\nThis is that place, that beauty which pales<br \/>\nbefore all pasts and before all presents,<br \/>\nbefore your primordially dark unease-<br \/>\nthis is that untraversable roughness.\nYou stand here silent and unseen<br \/>\nabove this quieted, unknown maelstrom.<br \/>\nBe to it a burbling, health-giving springtime,<br \/>\nif you would command it and dwell within.\nAnd without asking, anciently curious,<br \/>\nif it is a faithful prisoner of the verities,<br \/>\nenter quietly and unnoticed,<br \/>\nenter with the wisdom of the years.\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>Tenth Prayer of My Body This is that place, that captive beauty, that miraculous death from blue and white, from the blue and white in the eyes of the wind; this is that brutish thing, that body. This is that place, that beauty which pales before all pasts and before all presents, before your primordially&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-97989","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97989","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=97989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101883,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97989\/revisions\/101883"}],"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=97989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}