Miljenko Kovačićek
inglés
UVOD U VUKA
Skijajući, prirodi dalek, htjedoh oteti njezino otajstvo. Ona
bješe za mene samo prohodno, utabano mjesto za prolaz nogu.
No tek u padu se raspoznaje što je tijelo, a što duša. Tek
u padu bijah spreman da se okrenem prirodi, jednom kad sam
zagnjurio i nogama i rukama u snijeg.
Sve se promijenilo, odjednom, zauvijek jedanput: ovlada divlja,
prijeteća tišina. Bijeli pokrov u tišini grana, sve svečano.
Na nekoliko metara od mene pojavi se vuk.
Sišao je na moju stazu i uputio se u dol. Vidio sam zvijer
kako bezbrižno umače šape u snijeg i ostavlja svoju sliku.
Njoj je pripadala bjelina, svako stablo, kora i tišina.
Producción de Audio: Croatian P.E.N. Centre
INTRODUCTION TO THE WOLF
Skiing, distant to nature, I wanted to take her mystery. To me,
she was only a passable, trodden place for the passage of feet.
But only in a fall does one recognize what the body is and what the soul is. Only in a fall was I ready to turn to nature, once when I
sunk my hands and feet into the snow.
Everything changed, suddenly, forever at once: a silent,
threatening silence took over. The white cover in the silence of the boughs, everything solemn.
A few meters away from me, a wolf appeared.
He descended onto my slope and set off to the valley. I saw the beast
carelessly dipping its paws into the snow and leaving its image.
All the whiteness, every tree, bark and silence belonged to it.