DAILY PHOTO: Two Black Crowned Cranes, Amboseli NP

Taken in June of 2017 at Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Warthogs

Taken at the Giraffe Centre outside Nairobi in May of 2017.

DAILY PHOTO: Tusker Chewing Marsh Grass

Taken in May of 2017 at Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Views from Observation Hill, Amboseli NP

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Eye-to-Eye with Giraffe

Taken in June of 2017 near Nairobi

DAILY PHOTO: Observation Hill, Amboseli N.P.

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Elephants in the Marsh Near Dusk

Taken in May of 2017 at Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Wildebeest

Taken in April of 2017 in Mosi-Oa-Tuniya National Park, Zambia

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

DAILY PHOTO: Cape Buffalo with Egret, Amboseli NP

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Egret, in white

Cape Buffalo

POEM: Amboseli

belly-deep in glacial runoff

amid an emerald sea

a mud-caked troupe of elephants

the marsh free of acacia trees

Kilimanjaro looms in the distance

the source of all subsistence

if it should go

they’ll never know

it’s a death they can’t outdistance