Aural by David Huerta

Gritty frost from
the radio speaker
in the car’s
nomadic shadows:
a swamp of sounds
in which hearing’s
needle can
barely move.
Out of nowhere,
a torch singer
slices through Wittgenstein
with the cutlery
of cante jondo…
How does she do it? –
unstitch, unseam
language itself,
make the world flow and
if that wasn’t enough
hit the twin peaks
of grace and tragedy?
The car
anointed with music
slips into the night.

This poem is originally in Spanish. Listen to it hear in both languages courtesy  of Poetry Translation Center.

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“David Huerta is the son of the renowned Mexican poet Efraín Huerta, David was immersed since childhood in Mexico’s literary environment. He studied Philosophy, and English and Spanish literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His advocacy of literature and poetry has been extensive as a coordinator of literary workshops in the Casa del Lago of UNAM, INBA, and Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers.” Read more about him here.

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