June 2022
Bio Note: I was born in Portugal in the eighties. I am a clinical psychologist, a poet and failed actress. Wrote my first poetry book O Peso da Nuvem in 2008 edited by Alma Azul in Portugal. I have also been published in Ajar Press in Vietnam, Poetic Sun and Last Leaves with original poems written in English. You can often find me living in some random city near the sea.
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No one like dad has ever taught me the importance
of being fearless and vertical,
characteristics that shaped me in unusual fashion.
My father persisted - even when it was impossible,
by forgetting.
He left the birds and with them
their wings
I am bound to feed.
©2022 Ana Marta Fortuna
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