Zoologist Penguin Travel SprayEmperors they may be, but when a massive cyclone unleashes its merciless austral winds, the colony of penguins bow to its power. It's from such extremes that the male penguin must guard his precious bundle. Passed tenderly from mother to father, the egg is their shared purpose. She embarks on a perilous odyssey to the sea for food. He begins his own monotonous march, packed tightly in a circle of trudging penguins. So intent is he on protecting his

a curtain of lethal tentacles sways menacingly in the swell

shrouded by smoky undertones of papyrus and ebony wood

invisible love notes call to a would-be mate

Time is running out

Will the creature vanish among the leaves

then draw you even deeper into musky amber and woods

Zoologist Cockatiel was formerly known as “Powder and Dust”

Hovering among the coral branches

elastic forms propel from the deep in a frantic search for sustenance

At first encounter

With such surprising couplets as tuberose and seaweed

the fragrance dissipates gradually