O Pássaro

My body drips

Unfurling in the Rio heat 

Flesh and fluid 

How nice it is to be free

To sweat and not wear makeup 

To make myself up instead 

Unfurling, I enjoy that word

Like my molting

Like my rebirthing 

More so my becoming 

My body feels warm 

Paralyzed, for a few moments 

In this strange 

New world 

This brave 

New world

A world where people take their time

Unfurl before themselves 

Again

And 

Again

And

Again.

Um cachorro barks.