{"id":98129,"date":"2024-08-11T04:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b2-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b5%d0%b7%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:40:00","slug":"hunt-on-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/hunt-on-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt on the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tHunt on the Lake\t<\/h1>\n\tA bird, eyes fixed. Hunger.<br \/>\nA cormorant erect with threat.<br \/>\nUtterly still the lake&#8217;s surface,<br \/>\nblue from sorrow wept.\nThe dark beat of the wings<br \/>\ndarkly cleaves the blue.<br \/>\nIn the bill the slashed fish<br \/>\nflashes in the cold.\nThe day is gray with dying.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re alone. We don&#8217;t say a word.<br \/>\nA certain mute understanding<br \/>\nis driving us apart.\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>Hunt on the Lake A bird, eyes fixed. Hunger. A cormorant erect with threat. Utterly still the lake&#8217;s surface, blue from sorrow wept. The dark beat of the wings darkly cleaves the blue. In the bill the slashed fish flashes in the cold. The day is gray with dying. We&#8217;re alone. We don&#8217;t say a&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-98129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98129","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=98129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102615,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98129\/revisions\/102615"}],"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=98129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}