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COLUMN FORTY-FIVE, MAY 1, 1999
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[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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