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Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena), Risdon Brook State Park, Tasmania: photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
Welcome, swallow,
though one
of you does not make a Spring
In fact it's freezing
mid the year's last night
and no birds sing
Cats all about
comma-shaped
forms sleeping
Window frost
within the house
and without
Traffic racing past
to party
as though
Tomorrow will never know
Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), crying, Curio Bay, New Zealand: photo by Christian Mehlführer, 2008
though one
of you does not make a Spring
In fact it's freezing
mid the year's last night
and no birds sing
Cats all about
comma-shaped
forms sleeping
Window frost
within the house
and without
Traffic racing past
to party
as though
Tomorrow will never know
Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), crying, Curio Bay, New Zealand: photo by Christian Mehlführer, 2008
Ice wall and ocean floor at Explorer's Cove, New Harbor, McMurdo Sound, with visible species including Antarctic Scallop (Adamussium colbecki), Common Antarctic Sea Urchin (Sterchinus neumayeri), Bush Sponge (Homaxinella balfourensis), Brittlestar (Ophionotus victoriae), and Seaspiders (Colossendeis sp.): photo by Steve Clabuesch (NSF/USAP)
