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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. ##

* * *

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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