And this is from the other tradition in the Bible.
From the Muslims of-- people of Muslim.
Faith to believe that they're descending too
from Abraham but through the line of Ishmael.
"Ishmael remembers Abraham".
"In life, he was so quiet.
He often seemed dead.
Now in death he is loud with life.
His mouth is filling the bowl again with nails.
Translating is as large as its content.
My arms weaken.
My shoulders are melting at the stubbornness of it all.
His feet are growing more distant.
He continues to sand his nails.
Shadows resume flying into the house.
What do I know of my father?
He never gave me heart strings.
Only all that I could bear into the desert
where my mother was drowning in a well."