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Mushroom Art   2 comments

Mushroom Art — Image by kenne

On dead wood

color breaks open:

spores, brushstrokes, breath.

The forest practices

its oldest craft—reuse.

— kenne

Intuition Enjoys Life and Its Challenges   Leave a comment

Female Phainopepla In Sabino Canyon — Photo-artistry by kenne

Whenever we need
to make a very important decision
it is best to trust our instincts,
because reason usually tries to
remove us from our dream,
saying that the time is not yet right.
Reason is afraid of defeat,
but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

— Paulo Coelho

 

Remembering How To Endure   Leave a comment

Cold trail at night—
even the stones remember
how to endure.

— kenne

Nets and Floaters On The Dock   Leave a comment

Nets and Floaters On the Dock (Juneau, Alaska) — Image by kenne

Floaters on the Dock

Orange floaters knocking
like monk’s bells
in a tide-slow chant.

Nets coiled—
a bright tangle
of the year’s labor.

The net knows this—

every line holding

a memory of the deep.

A quiet holiness
in stacked gear,
boots drying,
the diesel tang of the day.

I sit on an overturned bucket
and breathe.
Even here,
the tide pulls a little.

— kenne

Old Tucson Backlot   1 comment

Backlot props — Image by kenne

I wander the dusty backlot of Old Tucson
where a broken wagon wheel leans
against a wall the color of old adobe.

A sign reads Props, but really,
who can tell?

Everything here looks equally retired—
the wooden crates, the tin stars,
the barrel with no bottom.

I stand there wondering
if this is what happens to a life too:
all our moments stored behind a door
labeled with someone else’s handwriting.

— kenne

Sandhill Cranes   3 comments

Sandhill Cranes at Waterwater Drew — Image by kenne

The cranes croak and rattle in the dawn
like rusty hinges on the world’s back door.
I like their honesty—
no pretense, no apology.

Just hunger, cold feet, long flight,
and the ancient duty of returning.
The desert approves.
So do I.

— kenne

Self Portrait   1 comment

Photo-artistry by kenne

There is a thin, vibrating line
between breaking and becoming.

Every life presses against it.
In the quiet,
you can feel your own edges—
the places where you diminish,
the places where you bloom.

Fragility is the instrument,
transformation the music,
survival the performance
no one applauds
yet everyone enacts.

— kenne

Raven In The Storm   7 comments

Raven In the Storm — Image by kenne

The raven grips the crooked limb
as if the whole sky might slip away.

Clouds bruise the distance.

Wind tugs at every loose thing—
except this raven,
who has already made a pact
with the storm.

— kenne

Duende   Leave a comment

Duende speaks without permission — Image by kenne

Duende can’t be rehearsed

it blooms suddenly—

dark, luminous, and real,

flooding the room with soul.

— kenne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI72kyy2Ius&list=RDvI72kyy2Ius&start_radio=1

Gila Woodpecker   1 comment

Gila Woodpecker — Photo-artistry by kenne

Gila Woodpecker

comes in loud,
like a drunk at noon,
runs the little birds off,
takes what isn’t his—
sweet red from
the humminbird glass.

I don’t blame him.
world’s built that way—
noise wins,
beauty keeps its distance.

still,
I raise my coffee,
to the bastard.

— kenne

Water Lily Painting   1 comment

Water Lily Painting by kenne

The scene feels almost meditative—

water lilies glowing

against the cool pond surface,

inviting you to linger a little longer.

— kenne

Patio Nightlight   Leave a comment

Patio Nightlight — Image by kenne

A solar jar sits glowing on the patio,

quiet as a candle,

turning leftover daylight

into a soft evening companion.

— kenne

Aging   2 comments

Aging by kenne

A beard teaches patience:
days become weeks,
weeks become memory.

You learn what it means
to grow slowly,
and not mind the uneven parts.

Friends Help Plant New Vines   2 comments

Hands in Soil (2005) by kenne

Hands in soil,
the old language returns—
shared labor,
shared laughter,
the first vines trembling in their beds of earth.

This is how belonging begins:
not in words,
but in what we choose
to plant together.

Another Winter Solstice   1 comment

Smiling Sun On the Wall — Photo-artistry by kenne

At solstice, the shadow holds still,
a perfect exposure.
The wall remembers the sun
not as warmth,
but as form—
enduring, exact, and silent.

— kenne