little singing birds are diving into the fire
the smell of burning bird
of suicided song
is mistaken for a dark day in Australia
overcast skies, the weather reader reports
(Hodan Yasin and Omid Masoumali, young refugees from Somalia and Iran and detained by Australia, set themselves on fire within a week of each other)
-by Tamara Pearson, author The Butterfly Prison
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