Shielding Bougainvillea in Medellin
by Anna Benitez
Dusk settles over a narrow Comuna street where heavy rain softens the harsh geometry of corrugated metal and concrete. A woman in a yellow raincoat pauses beneath a corrugated awning, shielding a cluster of bright red bougainvillea blooms that spill over a rusted railing. Water streams down the translucent plastic sheeting, distorting the neon pink sign of a nearby corner store. Her plastic basket, filled with green fruit skins glistening under the streetlamp’s orange spill, rests against her hip. The wet pavement reflects the blurred lights of passing buses, creating a slick mirror of the steep hillside homes. Raindrops bead on the waxy leaves of the bougainvillea, against the rough, stained plaster of the adjacent wall.
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