Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Valencian Valentine

Watching the bullfights on TV
I start to understand
why they must do this
 
to the music of the corrida
the matador is St. Michael
the bull is the dragon
 
the bull is the soul’s
uncontrollable rages
that must be given up
 
baffled and overcome
by some godlike being’s
dazzling footwork  
 
courage and grace
so they reenact  
the old sacrifice
 
and because we still can’t do it
they have to go on
showing us how.
 

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