I
The Song of João Moura

The bullfighter shouted in the center of the arena
and the horse danced in the depth of fear.

II

Picasso wanted to paint an arena,
full-sized, accurate,

with miuras with needle-sharp horns, carved
under the sleek black mountains.

On the canvas of the painter bad omens show:
in Guernica, did he paint the victory of the bull?

Consider that the arenas are human roses
ready to burst with the rage of the blood.

If Picassos dream were not so absurd,
Manolete, for sure, in his gala outfit

remembering Linares, would give himself to the bull:
would he repeat, once again, the faena of the rose?

III

Why do we trust the bull with the evidence of the wait,
on this chancy dove, innocent yet a beast?

IV

At the very moment when the body is dressed in gala
the heat of the shroud increases its nakednes.

V
Tragedy of "YIYO"

The mortal spike ripping the flesh
of the bullfighter makes sprout a brutal beauty.

VI
Will I see the day when the bull will find its luck
in the prime of the fake womb of the reckless veronica?