{"id":98265,"date":"2024-06-28T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%b2%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%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":"2026-01-12T03:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:19:01","slug":"second-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/second-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tSecond Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tThis body which lies like a bridge between two shores,<br \/>\nthis body which lives on the dawns of your desires,<br \/>\nwill be even tomorrow the same as it is today,<br \/>\nbut with two marks more from two sharp blasts of gunfire,<br \/>\nthis body which lies like a bridge between two shores.\nThis body which lies like a bridge and waits long in patience<br \/>\nfor someone jovial to come and wake it up again . . .<br \/>\nFlow beneath this body like a river that has been harnessed,<br \/>\nto echo strong in tenderness with every curving arch-<br \/>\nthis body which lies like a bridge and waits long in patience.\nThis body which lies like a bridge, waiting for a wave to seize it,<br \/>\nto catch in it a glimpse of its own forgotten face,<br \/>\nwill become through all these awakenings and phases<br \/>\na tangible beacon of intangible desires,<br \/>\nthis body which lies like a bridge, waiting for a wave to seize it.\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\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.jpg\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.jpg\" alt=\"Second Prayer of My Body - manuscript\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1352\" width=\"954\" title=\"Second Prayer of My Body\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSecond Prayer of My Body &#8211; manuscript\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Prayer of My Body This body which lies like a bridge between two shores, this body which lives on the dawns of your desires, will be even tomorrow the same as it is today, but with two marks more from two sharp blasts of gunfire, this body which lies like a bridge between two&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-98265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98265","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=98265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101865,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98265\/revisions\/101865"}],"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=98265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}