DAILY PHOTO: Giraffing to the Max

Taken at the Giraffe Centre in Lang’ata, Kenya in May of 2018

Grazing Horse Tanka

grazing horses
approach a cliff:
not watching
where they are going,
but knowing where they are

DAILY PHOTO: Wolf in the Woods, Veresegyház

Taken in Veresegyház in the summer of 2011

Preening Hawk [Haiku]

a hawk preens --
a break from unflinching
vigilance

Raging Elephant [Haiku]

the elephant
they said was on a rampage
just had a bad toothache

Spotted Deer [Haibun]

Spotted deer framed in a glade, the warm morning light showing each coat to be a distinct shade of tawny brown. Two deep brown eyes - glassy but lively - keep watch, while the herd hangs heads low, grazing lazily on the overgrown greenery. The deer mill about so languidly that one could count each one's spots.

spotted deer,
grazing in a glade,
one stands sentry

DAILY PHOTO: Alien Views of a Crab

Taken at Naiharn in 2014

DAILY PHOTO: Kingfishers, Backwaters of Kerala

Taken in the Keralan Backwaters near Alappuzha in July of 2014

POEM: Don’t Tease the Monkeys

Hey, naked baby macaque,
who stole the hair off of your back,
but left you that blocky hairdo?
Perhaps, you didn't think your look through?