Whale Day by Billy Collins

Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

I might have left it at that,

a beachgoer’s morning take,

if an ice cube I tossed

hadn’t landed near them

and if one of them did not start

pecking and even sipping at it,

while rebuffing the others

if they neared this prize in the sand.

What would a pecking bird

make of this frozen curio

beyond something cold to peck at?

Did it fall from outer space?

Would it remind the bird

of its second home in the Arctic,

where sandpipers migrate

flying mostly by night,

with lots of ice to peck at on arrival?

Imagine—a bird missing the cold

while pecking at an ice cube

as it melted in the Florida sand.

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