Red-tailed Hawk Over Tucson Skies   3 comments

Red-tailed Hawk Over Tucson Skies — Image by kenne

Morning lifts on quiet thermals,
and there you are—
a single intention
written against the light.
Not striving, not hurried—
just the slow agreement
between feather and wind.
If I could learn anything today,
let it be this:
how to trust what carries me.

Sonoran Blue Sky   Leave a comment

Sonoran Blue Sky — Image by kenne

The sky lays itself down
across the mountains
like a second world—
blue poured into stone.
No sermon here,
just light telling rock
what it already knows.

Wild Senna   Leave a comment

Wild Senna On the Slope Behind Our House — Image by kenne

Sunlit blossoms nod,
each one a small declaration:
I am here, I bloom. 

 

Brown Pelican   Leave a comment

Brown Pelican Taking Off  — Image by kenne

There’s a hard-earned lift in him—
not the easy grace of a gull.

He runs the length of the lake to get free,
one wing touches into a broken rhythm.

That last touch, that trailing wing—
that’s the past reaching up, then letting go.

Raseate Skimmer Dragonfly   1 comment

Raseate Skimmer Dragonfly — Image by kenne

In motion, it measures motion—
wingbeats, shadows, the slight wrongness
of something closing in.
Eyes like a net of light
cast in all directions.

 

Blue-eyed Darter   Leave a comment

Blue-eyed Darner at Sweetwater Wetlands — Image by kennne

Where reeds bow in wind,
your brief, shining pilgrimage
outlives ancient song.

Shore Along The Outerbanks   Leave a comment

Shore Along the Outerbanks — Image by kenne

At the Outer Banks pier—
tide working the posts.
Waves come in
with no plan.

Dune line,
ocean breathing beyond.
Sand moves slowly—
stillness in motion.

Waves break,
and break again.
Nothing carried forward,
nothing left behind.

Bee On Lemmon Blossoms   2 comments

Honey Bee on Lemon Blossoms — Image by kenne

The lemon tree breathes light,
each blossom a small lantern,
and the bee moves among them
like a keeper of secrets.
What it takes, it gives—
though not to me, not directly.
Still, I stand in the fragrance
feeling included
in a mystery I do not own.

 

A Row Of Mailboxes   3 comments

Mailboxes in a Small New Mexico Town — Image by kenne

Each box is a story painted over rust—
names fading, but never gone.
Abuela still checks hers at sunrise,
like the sun might bring a letter from yesterday.
We are a people of waiting,
of holding onto envelopes like prayers,
addressed to hope.

 

Shadows On The Floor   2 comments

Shadows on the Floor — Image by kenne

We mistake the shadow for evidence
when it is closer to fiction.
It proposes a structure
the room does not possess.
And yet, once seen,
it is difficult to return
to the unmarked surface
without feeling something has been lost.

— kenne
 
 

McCaws In The Amazon   2 comments

McCaws In The Amazon — Image by kenne

In the vast green breath of the Amazon,
three macaw travel together—
not by chance, but by trust.

The universe does not send
companions without reason.

It teaches us, through them,
how to journey without fear.

 

Anna’s Hummingbird   2 comments

Anna’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne

tiny green body,
she hovers where stories live—
between what we say

He’s Back Again   1 comment

Gila Woodpecker on the Patio Tree — Image by kenne

there he is again—
clinging sideways to the tree
like a bad decision
that won’t let go.
tap-tap-tap—
no rhythm, no apology.
and I laugh,
because that’s life, isn’t it?
just you
and your stubborn little beak
against something harder.

Where Were You   4 comments

Image and Poem by kenne

Chipmonk On Prickly Pear Cactus   1 comment

Chipmunk on Prickly Pear Cactus — Image by kenne

Watch him long enough
and you begin to feel embarrassed—

all our tools, our gloves, our careful distance,
while he leans in bare-faced
to the red fruit of the Prickly Pear Cactus,
accepting risk like the weather.

A better citizen of this place
than most of us passing through.