This piece is inspired by a fortuitous visit one day of a similar bird who showed nothing but polite indifference, and a bottle of talc powder sitting around in my room.
Liliflora
Word count: 2400
Summary: In the language of flowers, magnolia means 'love of nature'. Who knew?
This
morning a bird came to my window and spoke to me. “Beware of the Liliflora,” it
said. Before I could ask the bird what it meant by the ominous warning, it had
flown away.
I
kept on replaying the scene in my mind few dozens times over the next two days,
but I still couldn’t understand the bird’s words. I didn’t even know what Liliflora
meant. When I searched the term on the internet, I only got entries on magnolias
and the closest I’d ever been to the flower was through my talcum powder. Did
this mean I have to be wary of talcum powder from now on?
This particular entry was written for Writing in the City's October 2011 prompt. The theme was 'Transaction' -- how art suffers or thrives in this increasingly materialistic and transaction-based world, especially in Singapore. 
