The tropical escape of northerners, and also of large birds.
Photo via Alex Perez.
I think the rooster appeared sometime during the pandemic. It’s hard to say, but I’m pretty sure I first saw it during one of those days in which the low-level stress of the time, even in a place as chill as Miami, was bordering on unbearable. I went outside to look at the sky or the ground or maybe the inside of my car to pass the time but was greeted by a rooster on the lawn.
Alex Perez is a fiction writer, critic, and editor from Miami-Dade County.
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