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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.

Posted April 17, 2026 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Photography, Poetry, Prickly Pear Cactus, Tucson Arizona

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