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COLUMN FORTY-FIVE, MAY 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.]
LA REALIDAD
Nido de mis dudas mds vivas la realidad
señias apenas
un guiñio de ojos un parpadeo roce de otras manos
aliento de otras bocas
otros cuerpos
traje hecho a ml medida ventana abierta a una sala
de balle
cielo sangrante al que no acabamos de dar crédito
la realidad
botellas con mapas de otro mundo perro que ladra
tras de una pelota
restos de una
cena
griticos griticos. ##
* * *
REALITY
nest of my most troubling doubts reality
scarcely signals
a blink of eyes a wink touch of other hands
breath of mother mouths
other bodies
suit tailored to a perfect fit window open
on a dance floor
bleeding sky credit due
reality
bottled maps of another world dog barking
after a ball
table
scraps
faint cries faint cries. ##
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