after César Vallejo   Heavy hoofs drumming the mountain, old bulls file in procession to St. Cecilia’s gambrel cross, her chapel a belling abattoir, blood mortaring stone, a rawhide roof strained taut, rain’s tambourine, cold winds that clack   her chime of hocks like castanets. At the altar block, ewes’ bells ring canticles, caged hens […]

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