Tiempo / Vicente Gerbasi

Time


to the memory of Ludovico Silva


Time past
was leaves
falling in light.
A distant glance
on an Abraham landscape.
I saw the lion of the abyss.
At night I sank
into the anxiety
of the stars.




{Vicente Gerbasi, El solitario viento de las hojas, Caracas: Tierra de Gracia Editores, 1989}