poet: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
living thing: a living (or once living) entity
coriolis effect: (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere