Giving voice to a now extinct New Zealand bird, this is a plaintive but urgent warning about ecological fragility
Huia
I was the first of birds to sing
I sang to signal rain
the one I loved was singing
and singing once again
Big brother
says also but the baby always says wow
though soon enough she too is saying also
and listening to her father say later
and to the way her mother sighs and says
now would also be a very good time
