Emina Đelilović-Kevrić (born December 12, 1989 in Travnik) is currently living in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After studying the B/C/S (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) language and literature at the Philoshopical Faculty in Zenica she got her master's degree on the subject „Memory construction in the South Slavic interlinear community: typical models of the war camp experience in literature“. She is the author of the poetry collection „ This time without history“ (Dobra knjiga, 2016) and the short stories collection „ Erased lives“ ( Dobra knjiga, 2021). Her collection of poems „ My son and I“ is awarded by the Publishing Foundation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2021. She is also author of children's book „Tale about the boy Adi and the computer“ She won many literary awards and participated in many anthologies.
I was a tree that morning
That morning I was a tree in the garden
I tickled the sky with my hands
With the tips of the twigs, I felt how soft and warm it was
An unknown melody carried the leaves
I was left naked, not ready to stay forever in one place
I was sure that my fall was not just a fall in the autumn
and that the moments of the unhappy intermezzo will end perhaps as early as the next morning
I saw a boy, he was saying come on, get up, move
the ivy laughed at my attempts to drag the body out of the crumpled and heavy earth
landscapes are sometimes just a broken mosaic of eternity, I thought
However, I still wanted the soul to take one step forward
the boy cried hugging my rough skin
I'm a boy from another planet and I've come to keep you company
you are the biggest tree in the world, and I am your most harmless fear, he said
I wondered if this is how those who can't escape anywhere feel
one morning from their garden to some unknown world
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -