Nesting Swallow in a Museum

Dr Abe V Rotor

Museum of Natural History, UPLB, Laguna

It's alive, this elusive bird called swallow or swift, 

     Golondrina in Mexican folklore;

I thought it was just one of the stuffed specimens; 

     but here a nest she sits on and nothing more.
 

What message does this bird convey, why of all places 

     the museum? Did it come from a foreign shore? 

I wonder if she has kin from where she came, and where; 

     and here a nest she sits on and nothing more. ~