25 de abril
Twenty-fifth of April. Carnations everywhere. People walking down Avenida da Liberdade with red carnations in their hands. In 1974 they put them in the soldiers' rifles. Now the kids wear them behind their ears.
You were fifty in 1974. You told me you cried all day and then went to work and taught the subjunctive like nothing happened.
I put a carnation in a glass of water on the windowsill for you.