{"id":98337,"date":"2024-06-28T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%bf%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":"2026-01-12T03:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:22:57","slug":"fifth-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/fifth-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tFifth Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tSo you will traverse this body, these vertiginous heights,<br \/>\nwind of silence, butterfly of a dream of everhurting.<br \/>\nWhere next inside me? Stop, relentless one-rest<br \/>\non this stone, this black stone, in this empty clearing.\nSo you will swim from this body, from this dark maelstrom,<br \/>\ndancer on all waters subterranean and unruly.<br \/>\nYou are only here as an ancient dweller,<br \/>\ndancing across this body, which bore you in fury.\nSo now we are captive in a dance, in a circle;<br \/>\nwe are carried on a dreary, unreal tidal wave,<br \/>\nand travel all our lives from one to the other,<br \/>\neach keeping hidden what it is we have.\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<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u0410\u0428-\u041a1-\u0410\u041530_I-5\u0442\u0430-\u041c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0430-\u043c\u0430\u0448\u0438\u043d\u043e\u043f\u0438\u0441-\u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0441\u043a\u0438-\u0434\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0443\u0432\u0430\u045a\u0430.jpg\" alt=\"Fifth Prayer of My Body - typescript\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1415\" width=\"1000\" title=\"Fifth Prayer of My Body - typescript\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFifth Prayer of My Body &#8211; typescript\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Prayer of My Body So you will traverse this body, these vertiginous heights, wind of silence, butterfly of a dream of everhurting. Where next inside me? Stop, relentless one-rest on this stone, this black stone, in this empty clearing. So you will swim from this body, from this dark maelstrom, dancer on all waters&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-98337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98337","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=98337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101871,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98337\/revisions\/101871"}],"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=98337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}