Bovine

    animal event (at the school of Taureos)

    into the animal event
    i have been dragged and well
    indeed

    every year the same, i guess, except
    this time
    its me

    and like the bull, whos horn, whos unbroken
    rage
    your hand anointed

    when they seize the bodied, lashed and harnessed
    nerve by muscle to
    the craters edge

    as trampled roses bruised into the pass
    will grind in
    to mud by mountain makers hooves

    in magenta-black menstrual blood
    my terror
    my appetite


    //

    Socrates: (in Charmides, cont.)

    and well indeed into the wrestling-
    school of Taureos (where bulls are offerings)

    straight down from the temple
    of the Queen (of whom nothing is known)

    // 153α

    καὶ δὴ καὶ εἰς τὴν Ταυρέου παλαίστραν
    τὴν καταντικρὺ τοῦ τῆς Βασίλης ἱεροῦ εἰσῆλθον