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COLUMN FORTY-FOUR, APRIL 1, 1999
(Copyright © 1999 Al Aronowitz)
(Photo by Carlos Arturo Puerta)
[From Colombia's celebrated poet, Raúl Henao of Medellin, here's another poem in Spanish, accompanied by its English translation, both from Raúl's La vida a la carta or Life a la carte.]
VACIO Y MARAVILLOSO
LIEH TZU:
sólo enseñó el arte de cabalgar el viento
WU TAO TZU:
pintó un vasto paisaje sobre un muro del palacio
de Ming Huang y "se&numl;alando el ángulo del cuadro donde
podia verse unagruta al lado de un templo"
desapareció por ella
Dejando el muro tan blanco como antes de haber
iniciado su obra. ##
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AMAZING VOID
LIEH TZU :
merely taught the art of wind-mounting
WU TAO TZU:
painted a vast landscape on a Ming Huang palace
wall and "pointing to the angle of the picture from which
one could see a grotto beside a temple"
disappeared into it
Leaving the wall as blank as before he had
begun his work. ##
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