Taken in February of 2012 at Zoo Atlanta.
DAILY PHOTO: Resting Panda Face
2
Category Archives: Animals
DAILY PHOTO: Nyala on the Chobe River Bank
POEM: Shucking Crow
There’s a crow outside my window.
Can it see me through the muslin?
Could its feathered form be winnowed —
spirits shed by baker’s dozens
until remained only a faint dot?
Does it ask the same of me, or not?
Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.
DAILY PHOTO: Rock Agama
Chennagiri Hill; July 4, 2020
Ramanagara Hill; July 3, 2020
Ramanagara Hill
Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.
POEM: Ubiquitous Bird’s Eye
On my street, not a thing happens
uncaptured in birds’ eyes.
Hawks sit on streetlamps or corners —
swivel-cowled remote spies.
And the crows lurk by the murder,
swooping to the sidewalk.
Pigeons strut and flap-glide down low —
masters of the sly gawk.
Add myriad flitters and sitters —
high-speed reconnaissance
and those who seem occupied by
a playful mating dance.
They’re squatters, stalkers, and spotters —
but who watches the watchers?
Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.
DAILY PHOTO: Wrinkly Forehead
DAILY PHOTO: Backwater Birds
DAILY PHOTO: Walking Mammals, Botswana
DAILY PHOTO: Small[-ish] Mammals of the Savanna
POEM: Marsh Elephants
fragile herd,
living in the space between
Kilimanjaro’s broad shoulders
[too broad to see without a panning view]
on an oasis of glacial melt
runoff that grows a plume of vivid green
amid the red-brown savannah lands
where dust devils daily form
below the equatorial belt
and when the runoff runs out
there’ll be no time to run
