{"id":98369,"date":"2024-06-28T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%b4%d0%bc%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":"2026-01-12T03:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:25:35","slug":"seventh-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/seventh-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tSeventh Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tYour entreatful menace, your tender cunning,<br \/>\nyour sweet deceits-all these I know.<br \/>\nDoes this dance today weigh so heavy upon me<br \/>\nthat even I, till I ache, bare myself to you?\nYou know that there are no tracks in this place,<br \/>\nno predator is here, no wild beast passes by.<br \/>\nBe merciful, be generous and gentle with this body,<br \/>\nwhich in its waiting is wasting away.\nThis body is like a parched riverbed<br \/>\ncracked from the heat and blackened by sun.<br \/>\nThis body is tenacious, hungry as a barren field.<br \/>\nBe its new mother, reconceive it now.\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>Seventh Prayer of My Body Your entreatful menace, your tender cunning, your sweet deceits-all these I know. Does this dance today weigh so heavy upon me that even I, till I ache, bare myself to you? You know that there are no tracks in this place, no predator is here, no wild beast passes by.&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-98369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98369","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=98369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101877,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98369\/revisions\/101877"}],"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=98369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}