SECTION SEVENTEEN
POETRY PAGE TWO
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COLUMN
FIFTY-SEVEN, MARCH 1, 2001
(Copyright © 2001 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.]
Monedas
más delgadas que la tela de un sueño
suspendidas en el aire encharcado del sol
Un
río que corre como un atleta como un sabueso
Sin orillas hasta donde se
arrastra el ala
un cuerno de caza una viola con la garganta abierta
por la que corren sangre y semen
El borde humedecido de una carta gorjeo
de la
alcantarilla vientres borrachos sexo de mil chorros
de agua un árbol sordo al hacha
Esos mecheros de palomas de luz
perchas de las que
cuelgan las estrellas
Unos ciclistas con las ropas en
llamas cruzando
las esquinas
que miran caer lagente hacia
arriba aspiradas por
una manga huracanada
Eternos pasaj'es desllzándose por
innumerables
arcadas desaparecen baj'o las manos de un músico
tocando un órgano de capilla ardiente. ##
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Coins
more tenuous than the fabric of a dream
suspended in the sun-flooded air
A
river than runs like an athlete like a bloodhound
Shoreless
as far as the dragging wing
a hunting horn a viola with blood and semen
running down its open throat
The
dampened edge of a letter gurgling of the drain
drunken bellies sex of a thousand showers
of water tree deaf to the hatchet
Those sockets of doves of light
roosts of those
Some
cyclists with their clothes in flames crossing
the streetcorners
who
watch the people fall upward sucked
by a cyclone funnel
Eternal
passages sliding across innumerable
arcades disappear under the hands of a musician
playing an organ in a burning chapel. ##
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