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        albanian
        arabic
        araucanian
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        assamese
        azerbaijani
        bashkir
        basque
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Marija Dejanović

Pravilne linije

  • 1 Pravilne linije | Translations: elensl
  • 2 Vrijeme dugog oporavka | Translations: bgelen
  • 3 Amfora | Translations: deelen
  • 4 Island | Translations: bgdeelen
  • 5 Cementna | Translations: elen
  • 6 Fotografija patke | Translations: deelen
  • 7 Luksuz: zašto smo voljeli plakati i koliko nam je sve to značilo | Translations: elen
  • 8 TRI KREZUBE VJEŠTICE | Translations: eneslt
  • 9 Ugasiti hrast | Translations: enesfiisptro
  • 10 Ovalna | Translations: elensl
  • 11 ZVUK | Translations: enesis
  • 12 Aubade | Translations: elenhu
Language: croatian
Translations: greek (Χαράζοντας ευθείες γραμμές), english (Tracing Straight Lines), slovenian (Pravilne linije)
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Pravilne linije

Žuta tromost dolaska
plodova drveća, jabuka, krušaka
izniknula je iz kamena ukopanog kao peta,
isplivala iz vode.

Svo je voće žuto
i pojavljuje se samo u naznakama,
debljina podneva prilazi nam kao pitomi vlak,
redovito, s blagim odstupanjima
i upozorava nas da moramo biti oprezni,
blago nasmiješeni,
čiste površine i metalnog, zagrijanog srca,
spremni da motikom zatučemo bjelouške
i u pretrazi prevrnemo svaki kamen.

Ona ima vatrostalne ruke,
skriva ih u pećnici kao zmija noge,
isteže vrat, tjeme i bradu slijedeći pravilnu liniju,
prati na nebu male ožiljke
ispuštene iz stražnjice aviona.

Ne može se na mene opeći,
ne može mi saznati ime.
Zjenice su nam fiksirane, uokvirene trepavicama
koje kalibriraju kao pupoljci,
pupoljci svibanjski,
pogledom ispraćaju noge i glave.

Tako sam sretna što te imam,
ukrala si dio auta samo da ga ne može nitko voziti
i sad autostopiraš, misleći
što li mi je sve to trebalo.

Travnati ti jezik skriva laži,
slatke, ljetne preinake kako bi me više voljela.

Kad u ustima topiš moje ime
zaklela bih se da je to neko drugo ime.
Kad mi ustima ljubiš obraz,
zaklela bih se
da to nije moj obraz.

© Marija Dejanović
Categories: woman, friendship, love, summer, landscape, animals

Translations:

Language: greek

Χαράζοντας ευθείες γραμμές

Η κίτρινη αδράνεια της άφιξης
φρούτων, μήλων κι αχλαδιών
που βλασταίνουν από πέτρα μπηγμένη βαθιά σαν τακούνι,
βγήκε κολυμπώντας απ’ το νερό.

Όλα τα φρούτα είναι κίτρινα
κι εμφανίζονται μόνο σαν νύξεις,
η πυκνότητα του μεσημεριού μας πλησιάζει σαν τιθασευμένο τρένο
συστηματικά, με λεπτές αποκλίσεις,

και μας συμβουλεύει να είμαστε προσεκτικοί
με ελαφρά χαμόγελα,
καθαρές επιφάνειες και θερμαινόμενες ατσάλινες καρδιές,
έτοιμοι να λιώσουμε φίδια με φτυάρια
και να τα ξετρυπώσουμε κάτω από κάθε πέτρα.

Εκείνη έχει χέρια πυρίμαχα και
τα κρύβει στο φούρνο όπως το φίδι κρύβει τα πόδια του,
τεντώνει το λαιμό της, κρανίο και πιγούνι μια ευθεία
και εξετάζει τον ουρανό για ουλές
από τις ράχες των αεροπλάνων.

Δεν μπορεί να χαράξει πάνω μου τα πύρινα σημάδια της,
δεν μπορεί να μάθει το όνομά μου.
Οι ίριδες μας ορίζονται από βλεφαρίδες
που βαθμονομούν σαν μπουμπούκια,
μπουμπούκια του Μαΐου
όταν συνοδεύουν κορόνα και γράμματα.

Είμαι τόσο ευτυχισμένη που σ’ έχω
έκλεψες ένα κομμάτι από το αυτοκίνητο
κι έτσι κανείς δεν μπορεί να το οδηγήσει
και τώρα κάνεις οτοστόπ κι αναρωτιέσαι
αν άξιζε τον κόπο.

Η γρασιδένια γλώσσα σου κρύβει ψέμματα
γλυκές καλοκαιρινές προσβολές που σε βοηθούν να μ’ αγαπήσεις.

Όταν λιώνεις το όνομά μου στο στόμα σου,
θα ’παιρνα όρκο πως δεν είναι το όνομά μου.
Όταν το στόμα σου φιλάει το μάγουλό μου,
θα ’παιρνα όρκο πως δεν είναι το μάγουλό μου.

Μετάφραση: Memi Katsoni
Language: english

Tracing Straight Lines

Yellow inertia of arrival
of fruits, apples, pears,
sprouted from a stone that was dug in like a heel,
swam out of water.

All fruit is yellow
and appears only in hints,
thickness of noon approaches us like a tame train,
regularly, with delicate deviations,
and warns us to be careful,
with mild smiles,
clean surfaces, and heated steel hearts,
ready to smother snakes with shovels,
and to seek them under every stone.

She has fireproof hands, and
hides them in the oven like a snake hides its legs,
stretches her neck, scalp and chin tracing straight lines,
and searches the sky for scars
coming out the backs of planes.

She can't burn herself on me,
she can't learn my name.
Our irises are fixed within eyelashes
that calibrate like flower buds,
buds of May,
escorting heads and tails.

I'm so happy to have you,
you stole a part of the car so nobody could drive it,
and now you are hitchhiking, wondering
whether it was worth it.

Your grassy tongue hides lies,
sweet, summery slights that enable you to love me.

When you melt my name in your mouth,
I’d swear it's not my name.
When your mouth kisses my cheek,
I’d swear it's not my cheek.

Translated by: Hana Samaržija
Language: slovenian

Pravilne linije

Rumena počasnost prihajanja
plodov dreves, jabolk, hrušk
je vzniknila iz kamna, vkopanega kot peta,
splavala iz vode.

Vse sadje je rumeno
in se pojavlja le v zaznamkih,
debelina poldneva prihaja k nama kot krotek vlak,
redno, z rahlimi odstopanji
in naju opozarja, naj bova previdni,
naj ohranjava rahel nasmešek,
s čistimi površinami in kovinskim, ogretim srcem,
pripravljeni, da z motiko potolčeva belouške
in med iskanjem obrneva vsak kamen.

Ona ima ognjevarne roke,
skriva jih v pečici kot kača noge,
v pravilni liniji izteguje vrat, teme in brado,
na nebu spremlja majhne brazgotine,
ki jih letalo izpušča iz zadnjice.

Na meni se ne more opeči,
ne more izvedeti mojega imena.
Imava trdno uperjene zenice, uokvirjene s trepalnicami,
ki kalibrirajo kot popki,
majski popki,
s pogledom pospremijo noge in glave.

Tako sem srečna, da te imam,
ukradla si del avta, toda nihče ga ne more voziti
in zdaj štopaš in pri tem razmišljaš,
kaj mi je bilo tega treba.

Tvoj travnati jezik skriva laži,
sladke, poletne spremembice, in potem me imaš še raje.

Ko v ustih raztapljaš moje ime,
bi prisegla, da je to neko drugo ime.
Ko me z ustnicami poljubljaš po licu,
bi prisegla,
da to ni moje lice.

Prevedla: Barbara Pogačnik
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Marija Dejanović

photo © private Nikola Kuprešanin
* 27.06.1992, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
lives in: Larissa, Greece

Marija Dejanović was born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1992. She grew up in Croatia, Sisak, and currently lives in Zagreb, Croatia, and Larissa, Greece.

In the year 2018 her manuscript "Ethics of Bread and Horses" ("Etika kruha i konja") won the "Goran" award for young poets and “Kvirin” award for young poets. The Manuscript "Heartwood" ("Središnji god") won her the "Zdravko Pucak" award. Her trilingual book, “Visible Bone”, was published in Athens, Greece, by Poets’ Cycle in 2020. She won the “Milo Bošković” award for a single poem.

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Her poems were published in ten world languages. She presented her poetry at festivals and readings in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, and Greece. Literary reviews and translations from English by the author appeared in renowned literary magazines in Croatia.

Marija Dejanović studied pedagogy and literary theory in Zagreb.

She is a member of the Croatian Writers’ Society and international poets’ and festivals’ platform Versopolis. She’s one of the editors of “Tema” magazine. She is the assistant director of Thessalian Poetry Festival (Πανθεσσαλικό Φεστιβάλ Ποίησης).

Publications
  • Etika kruha i konja

    (Ethics of Bread and Horses)

    Zagreb: SKUD IGK, 2018

  • Središnji god

    (Heartwood)

    2018

  • Orato Osto/ Visible Bone/ Vidljiva kost

    Athens: Poets Circle, 2020

Awards
  • 2018 Goran award for young poets

  • 2018 Kvirin award for young poets

  • 2018 Zdravko Pucak award

  • 2020 Milo Bošković award

Links
  • Marija Dejanović - Die Kehle

    Poetische Überarbeitung des Mythos vom „Raub der Europa“

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