Nothing lives in the circle
but the red cape, red, red, red,
the cape with fluted edges
turning on the axis of a still body,
a dream torso.
In the trance
of the circuit arena, round, round, round,
the cape lances clean
an ambit of air. Then ah! ah! diagonal and tangent
interrupts, el torro.
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