Sunrise Over Antarctica, Sept. 23, 2026

September sun ignites snow, blinding a thawed penguin in the polar dawn. It stumbles and flails atop blue-gray glacier. A quintet of explorers laugh. You've got to appreciate the little things, pratfalls included. The penguin rights itself and waddles through their wispy, spectral forms, plunging into six months of day.

Nicholas De Marino is a neurodivergent rhyparographer. More at nicholasdemarino.blogspot.com.