The Book of Duels. Michael Garriga

of Easter Sunday in Granada, Spain,

       March 27, 1932

      Sueño de Fuego, 5, 584 Kilos,

      Miura Bull from La Ganadería Miura Lineage

      Scratch and snort and huff and puff and put my hoof-print in this earth—this my place and this my time and here I’ve come to fuck or fight—here I find no cow nor steer to my delight, so stomp and spit and huff and thrust and put my rut in this beast here—six legs, it has, three arms, two heads—has it come to muscle me, to make a morsel out of me—but truth be told, I want it more, so I drive my horn straight through its torso, and even as it barbs my hide, I lift it from the earth, shift my hump and dump it rump-wise and tear its insides out—I stomp and bellow, grumble and dig and suffer as it dies.