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COLUMN EIGHTY, DECEMBER 1, 2002
(Copyright © 2002 The Blacklisted Journalist)

(Photo by Carlos Arturo Puerta)

[All the way from Colombia, Medellin's celebrated poet, RaíP Henao, has sent us a new photo of himself plus a new poem, accompanied by its English translation.]

EL OLVIDO  

Cerca al desposeído al desamparado
El olvido pasea sus muertos
Insepultos entre la niebla .
Cruza el sordo la calle
A brincos la sangre le hace se's
En el espejo de la ma?na.
Y no hay un árbol a la redonda
Donde poner un nido de pájaros
Una sola nube donde acampar al sol.

El olvido pasea sus muertos insepultos
Cerca al desposeído al desamparado.
El sordo cruza la calle.
Entre la niebla acampan los pájaros
Porque no hay un sol donde poner una nube
Un árbol donde borrar
La sangre a cántaros de la madrugada.  ##  

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OBLIVION

Encircles the dispossessed the forsaken
Oblivion walks its dead
Unburied amid the fog
Pierces the deaf man the street he crosses
His blood leaps, signaling him
In the mirror of morning.
And there’s not a tree in sight
Where you could put a nest of birds
Not a single cloud to encamp the Sun.  

Oblivion walks its unburied dead
In encircles the dispossessed the forsaken.
The deaf man crosses the street.
Amid the fog the birds encamp
For there is no sun where you could place a cloud
No tree to erase
The bloodstorm of dawn. 

Translated by Cindy Schuster.  ##

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