Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by Martín Espada

Author:Martín Espada [Espada, Martín]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780393249040
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

When he died, I stole my father’s wristwatch.

I listened to the beating heart of the watch.

The heart of the watch kept beating long after

my father’s heart stopped beating. Somewhere,

the son of the man who stole my father’s wristwatch

in the Air Force holds the watch to his ear and listens

to the heart of the watch beating. He keeps the watch

in a sacred place where no one else will hear it.

So the son tries to resurrect the father. The Bible

tells the story wrong. We try to resurrect the father.

We listen for the heartbeat and hear the howling.

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