Sonia Manzano
speaker
283 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sonia Manzano’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wanted to see Rosaura close up in daylight.
Something about her whiteness had me spellbound.
Instead of going to work the following day, I visited Severiano's farm.
In the mid-morning, they called me from the store to tell me I was fired.
but it didn't bother me because by then, I knew my destiny was to be with Rosaura, Pinocchio, Amarillo, and Rubiola.
My fate was to help Severiano with the birds, learn to clean the aviary and to feed the hawk.
It was kept apart from the others with raw chicken and live mice, allowing the zigzagging scar on my leg
to fade slowly, and the pure white of Rosaura flapping her wings in the borderland night to erase every trace of that fateful accident.
Serviliano said I could stay in a small cabin some 40 yards from his house.
There was no bathroom, but
That wasn't a problem.
If I needed to piss during the night, I could do it outdoors among the rocks and shrubs surrounding the cabin.
I still hadn't recovered my fear of death and thought that dying like that, squatting, bitten by a viper, was as good a way to go as any other.
The aviary was awesome, a palace 45 feet high and at least 90 in diameter constructed from metal tubes like the ones used in market stands and completely covered in chicken wire.
Sevillano, who had been an engineer before buying the farm, had designed it single-handedly.
Inside there were areas of shade, fruit trees, a small pond, a scaled-down mountain of rocks with a gold mine, and even three smaller cages that housed the punk birds, as Seve called them, the misfits, the unhappy or aggressive birds that attacked the others and had to be on their own.
It was like a city inside there, and I very soon started to add my own ideas.
I planted a nopal so the bebeo would peck the fruit.
I designed a jacuzzi with a fish tank motor for the pair of iguanas that roamed the grounds.
On that basis, Severiano ceded me a section of the aviary, and that small kingdom, a tributary of his, became the center of my life.
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