About the March of Penguins

[not ignoring that it didn't mention climate disruption, etc....


the life you have
the only
one

The solitary penguin
struts the lengthy corridor
as a procession of species
(whose destination’s
their mutual origin)
co-evolves
with ice
they bear
better than others
what protects them—
male
and female
the egg
carrying forward
the future depends
on seeing
the self as
preserving the other
in music
w/o which
they could not know
their own.
Sounds
collaborative
like)
polytheism
at heart
articulating
from every chamber
the polymorphous
per
verse

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