BIO
Elisa Martinez Salazar. Author of poetry collection Desvelo, silencios y recuerdos. Her work has been included in the anthologies Desde el corazón II, Otoño e Invierno, Una poesia per Giulia and Cuentos del Sótano VI, and published in international magazines. Her short story "Vera" was nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net Awards. She is also a rapper and vocalist with two musical projects in Spanish under the name Elisa Carolina MS. Her short film “El Río” (“The River”) was selected for the 2019 INVICINES Social Film Festival in Argentina and the 2019 CINE MIAMI FEST Latino in Miami.
Portrait of a desert
Barren
hands, broken eyes
a
child plays with dust
no
rain to call, no arms to hold
for
in this land innocence dries.
Sobre la juventud
Eras
tan reciente, tan nueva,
tantas
sombras detrás de tu sonrisa
que
al final fue inevitable que tu gris se uniera al mío.
Desde
entonces
estas
noches amenazan con quebrarme el pecho.