Mr. Parreira and I have been working (via e-mail messages) on translations of his poetry from Portuguese to English. Here is our first one:
Bullfight by Joao Tomas Parreira
for El Fandi
Man and bull disarm
one another
bodies touch
as arrows
reach their targets
touching his suit of lights and the bull's dark hide
coloring the wind
and the soil of the bullring
man and bull
do not deny the contest
until blood
soaks the sand.
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