Month: May 2013

At the end of the day they peeled off their crusted stockings, furrowed in blankets, the soft soiled bedding of stuffy dens, gasped for air sweat and sleep on the first dense night of summer, one sore pair of ankles for every room in the city.

The following contains material from a recent talk with a chinstrap penguin, interviewed near his summer home on the shore of the Ross Sea. “It were horrible,” said Moe the penguin on a gusty, frigid Wednesday. “I were just mindin’ me own fish business, and it were clear water all the way to icy bottom […]