Lindsay Brand — The Monarch Review

A Lost Art – Lindsay Brand

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 13:44 — 0 Comments

Fifty years ago, I was a young man. Like most young men, I was full of vigor and passion. I fancied myself a poet. Conchita went with me to the bullfight once. That was the night I whispered a few lines of Pablo Neruda to her and she kissed me on the mouth. I will always remember how the taste of her lips mingled with the reverberating cries of “¡ole!” My son wants to see the rodeo Americans are promoting in Guadalajara, so we go. An older lady clutching a small billfold leans over to her friend behind me and […]