Thursday, July 1, 2010

To the Violin (4)

Note:  This is the fourth in a series of six sequential poems by Jack Callan of Norfolk, written upon viewing a television feature highlighting a Spanish woman's dream of becoming a matador, and who has become successful in the Spanish bullring.  Over the next five days, the remaining poems will appear in sequence.

The energy of the bull
   is between the horns,
even still the knife.
   The crowd roots for the knife,
they like it with blood.

La matador would like it
     as a candle
and she afterward
   as a poster
she as hero
   who carries her temple
within her
   in worship to some
thick hide of tattoos
   that hide the scars
that hide it all
   in muscle
all in all
   she does nothing else

(c)Jack Callan          2010

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