Ajla Terzić

OSKAR ZA TRAVNIK

Da dobijem oskara

nikad ga ne bih posvetila

Bosni –

jedino Travniku

Travniku sa breathtaking

ulazom u grad,

Travniku sa njegova tri

groblja pot-pourrija

kakvog nema ni u Jerusalemu,

gradu sa munarama & sahat-kulama iz

Hiljadu i jedne noći.

Travniku koji parazitira na

vlastitoj prošlosti i time

gradi na sadašnjosti,

Travniku sa jednom kamenom pločom

zaraslom u travu na kojoj piše da je

Ivo Andrić tu zasadio bor;

Travniku u kojem su se namučili konzuli

i njihove male supruge,

gradu lijepih žena & sitnih kuća,

Travniku u kojem ima kafana nazvana po

austrougarskom careviću i gdje su nas jednom

opomenuli da se ne ljubimo

Travniku koji je

najviše

svoj

u prošlosti

i mjesecu

maju...

(iz zbirke Kako teško pišem, Sarajevo: Omnibus, 2004)

OSCAR FOR TRAVNIK

If I were to get an Oscar

I would never dedicate it to

Bosnia -

Only to Travnik

To Travnik with a breathtaking

entrance to the city

To Travnik with its three

potpourri graveyards

you won’t even find in Jerusalem

To the city with minarets and clock towers from

One thousand and one nights

To Travnik which feeds off

its own past

and builds on the present

To Travnik with one stone plate

covered by grass on which is written

Ivo Andrić planted a pine tree here

To Travnik where consulars

and their little wives faced turmoil

To the city of beautiful women and tiny houses

To Travnik in which there is an old café named after

the Austro-Hungarian prince and where we were once

reminded not to kiss

To Travnik which

is most

itself

in the past

and the month of

May

Na engleski prevele Olivia Jenkins, Emma Bagarić, Emily Huskić, Emma Carlson, and Lillian Walbrun