{"id":98101,"date":"2024-08-11T04:56:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%b7%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b6%d1%83%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%9a%d0%b5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:46:38","slug":"trickery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/trickery\/","title":{"rendered":"Trickery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tTrickery\t<\/h1>\n\tThe night, my son, is a white butterfly:<br \/>\nit alights on a poppy and there it hides,<br \/>\nnestled in the poppy flower soft and deep.<br \/>\nPut it out of your mind.<br \/>\nSleep, my son, sleep.\nThe night, my son, is a horse getting ready<br \/>\nto leave on a journey long and steep.<br \/>\nNow all is calm. Now there is nothing.<br \/>\nYou, too, settle down.<br \/>\nSleep.\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>Trickery The night, my son, is a white butterfly: it alights on a poppy and there it hides, nestled in the poppy flower soft and deep. Put it out of your mind. Sleep, my son, sleep. The night, my son, is a horse getting ready to leave on a journey long and steep. Now all&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-98101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98101","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=98101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102625,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98101\/revisions\/102625"}],"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=98101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}