Coyotes and a Crested Caracara in the Sonoran Desert 🌵🌸 (Tucson, AZ)

July 19, 2025

^{Coyote (Canis latrans)}

the desert evokes a feeling of stillness—
silence,
barring the mourning dove.

but this is illusion,
a veil to the passerby;
for the desert teems with life.

a perpetual
vibration.

the coyote’s paws,
the woodpecker’s beak,
the raptor’s howl.

morning birdsong
complex,
welcoming the sun
…
welcoming the sun.