Antonio Roberval Miketen


Mendes and the Bullfight in the Round

To yield silk for silk, millimeter by millimeter, the petal-like tissue to the finest needles. To weave, weave, weave, weave the bull in pink, without yielding the very terrain of the matador. In the smothness of the silk, in the cutting edge of a glimpse, to slide over the sword the purity of fire. To retain the fate of the bull, to feel the vein on the fingertip, to bring the leather close to the body without a flip of fear. With the thinness of the needle, even if the blood chills, retain the dark rose on the petal-like skin. In the bullfight in the round, to spill blood and salt, weaving a rose of fatal red color. Millimeter by millimeter, to yield, yield, yieid, to yield until the very minute when feeling that death has come.

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