Archive for the ‘Tucson Arizona’ Category

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. 

 

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.

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.

 

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
 
 

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   5 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.

Corvette Faffle   Leave a comment

Corvette Raffle at Sunset — Image by kenne

The sun lowers behind Tucson,
softening the edges of everything—
even hope.

Tickets crinkle in warm hands,
paper prayers folded small.

The Tucson Greek Festival hums—
music, language, memory—
while the car gleams,
a quiet altar
to chance.

Rose Lake   Leave a comment

Rose Lake in the Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne

No fish yet.
Just ripples
counting time.

He listens—
water against water,
nothing wasted.

Line in,
mind out,
both drifting.

— kenne

Greater Roadrunner   1 comment

Roadrunner On Patio Wall — Image by kenne

There is something mildly suspicious
about the way he freezes mid-stride,
as if someone has pressed pause
on a very small documentary.

Then—click—
he resumes,

like a thought returning
after wandering off
to check on something
it didn’t quite trust.

I imagine his mind full of notes:
check under rock,
avoid hawk,
ignore human with camera.

A tidy philosophy,

really.

— kenne

They’ll Call It Indecent   Leave a comment

Nude On the Deck — Sketch Art by kenne

there’s a strange relief
in having nothing left to hide behind—
no fabric excuses,
no polite disguises.

you feel the air touch everything,
like truth finally got tired of knocking
and kicked the damn door in.

they’ll call it indecent.
hell, they call everything real indecent.

— kenne

 

Pressing Against The Limits   1 comment

Pressing Against The Limits — Image by kenne

One does not “understand” this.
Understanding would reduce it,
make it manageable.

Instead, it asks for duration—
for the discipline
of staying with excess.

What emerges
is not a resolution
but a sharpened awareness

of how much
we need things
to mean one thing
at a time.

— kenne