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.