Luisa Dias

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“Migratory Bird” by Luisa Dias

Submitted to Contest #59

My homeland has many palm-trees and the thrush-song fills its air; no bird here can sing as well as the birds sing over there. The first thing Thomasin Alves noticed as she stepped out of the airport into the dense, burning air of January in Rio was the pungent smell of sewer that soured her nose instantly. The second was the absence of palm trees. She’d been reading this particular poem non-stop since embarking on the plane, still unable to pronounce its author name correctly, or so the old man sitting right next to her had said, and Thom...

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Pseudo writer /Wannabe academic /Amateur illustrator/Professional coffee addict