{"id":98285,"date":"2024-06-28T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b5%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":"2026-01-12T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:20:44","slug":"third-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/third-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThird Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tWhat are you-girl, woman, mother? Which one<br \/>\nare you, keeping watch before this temple, where<br \/>\nsilence heals my body, as it kneels in prayer.<br \/>\nWhat does your coming bring it-light or gloom?<br \/>\nWhat are you-girl, woman, mother? Which one?\nWhat are you, standing so still in dark repose<br \/>\nin front of this body, whose voice with a cry pursues<br \/>\nthe wind as it roves beneath secret skies,<br \/>\nwhose voice is the thirst and cry of the earth&#8217;s own cry?<br \/>\nWhat are you, standing so still in dark repose?\nWhat are you? Are you girl, woman, mother?<br \/>\nYou, still as stone before the door of this temple<br \/>\nbearing the mighty name I TRIUMPH-<br \/>\nyou lifted this body up, exalted and solemn.<br \/>\nWhat are you? Are you girl, mother, woman?\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u0422\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0430-\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0430-\u043d\u0430-\u043c\u043e\u0435\u0442\u043e-\u0442\u0435\u043b\u043e-\u041a\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043b-\u0415\u0444\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0432-1974.jpg\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u0422\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0430-\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0430-\u043d\u0430-\u043c\u043e\u0435\u0442\u043e-\u0442\u0435\u043b\u043e-\u041a\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043b-\u0415\u0444\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0432-1974.jpg\" alt=\"Third Prayer of My Body, by Kiril Efremov, 1974.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"922\" width=\"1169\" title=\"\u0422\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0430-\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0430-\u043d\u0430-\u043c\u043e\u0435\u0442\u043e-\u0442\u0435\u043b\u043e-\u041a\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043b-\u0415\u0444\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0432-1974\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThird Prayer of My Body, by Kiril Efremov, 1974.\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>Third Prayer of My Body What are you-girl, woman, mother? Which one are you, keeping watch before this temple, where silence heals my body, as it kneels in prayer. What does your coming bring it-light or gloom? What are you-girl, woman, mother? Which one? What are you, standing so still in dark repose in front&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-98285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98285","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=98285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101867,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98285\/revisions\/101867"}],"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=98285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}