One/ Luis Alberto Crespo

I know that turtledove
Does not sing for me
Neither is land in the language
To say goodbye
But if I closed my eyes
And went somewhere else
If I crossed into the deepest of the splendor
Promise me that we would go together to the shoreline
Of its sorrow
And you would give me to taste that teardrop flavor
The word forgetfulness has

Luis Alberto Crespo (Carora, 1941). From the book Mediodía o nunca (Ex Libris, 1989). Some of his titles are Si el verano es dilatado, Entreabierto (1984), Señores de la distancia (1988), Sentimentales (1990), Más afuera (1993), Duro (1995), Solamente (1996).