{"id":98421,"date":"2024-08-18T13:07:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/he%d0%b2pe%d0%bce\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:13:47","slug":"tempest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/tempest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tTempest\t<\/h1>\n\tHow the river carries me, how it tosses me along<br \/>\nfrom one lake to another, one thirst to another.<br \/>\nWith silent throats the fish incant a vatic song-<br \/>\nthey who circle endlessly like a sunflower of water.\nGo from this tower, descend the stair,<br \/>\nstoke the embers beneath the wings of the waterbird-<br \/>\nthe smallest blossom&#8217;s ripple rocks all the centuries there<br \/>\nand moves the looming shadows of faces long departed.\nThe depths of the earth roar, like dense cloud rent by lightning,<br \/>\nthe world is uprooted, the old axles crack with doom,<br \/>\nall is shattered, collapsing, everything is dying<br \/>\nbefore the deer on the wave as before breasts in bloom.\nWeep, water! Depths, wail! Wail, planet ablaze!<br \/>\nWeather that rages is weather in truth.<br \/>\nBeneath you the earth lies exhausted and dazed,<br \/>\nand a dark horseman comes to gather his fruit.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/reader-of-the-ashes-content\/\"><em>Reader of the Ashes<\/em><\/a>, 1970<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\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tempest How the river carries me, how it tosses me along from one lake to another, one thirst to another. With silent throats the fish incant a vatic song- they who circle endlessly like a sunflower of water. Go from this tower, descend the stair, stoke the embers beneath the wings of the waterbird- the&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-98421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98421","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=98421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102407,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98421\/revisions\/102407"}],"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=98421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}