The floor is covered with ribbons of broken hair snapped, dry, dirty hair. She watches it break and die every day; even when it groans from her scalp, she no longer cries for it. It's only hair.
She sits in the corner, with another of her headaches, closing her unwashed eyes and praying for sleep.
When a man's voice calls to her from outside, she jumps.
No one speaks to her.
She is one hundred feet from the ground and no one can see her face.
Heart quickening - a newborn sparrow that must learn to fly or else succumb to a hungry mouth - she struggles with her locked bones to stand and run to the window. She only moves s
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Performing Daily Wondrous Hummingbirds!
All you need to set the stage is a plastic feeder filled with red–dyed sugar water to bring the endless caravan of performers right to your window or patio. They have a seemingly endless variety of brightly colorful costumes—some with spangles that catch and reflect the sunlight. They are mainly air dancers performing their repertoire of dives and loops and amazing midair maneuvers no other birds can pull off, stopping and starting, hovering like helicopters, flying upside down and backwards. But they can also be comedians and con men, tricking other bigger hummers