Zebras
(A 55)
Remember
when we were two
trout climbing Sahara sand,
two flamingos wading snow,
two zebras
grazing rock, stalked
by an avalanche of clocks
worse than any lion.
Remember
our nights stitched from
oak's blood and violins
torn from the big cat's teeth.
Come home again
before the door breaks,
before memory's last meal
is gone.
January 2022
posted for dVerse Poets
using words from
Images: Sleeping Zebra, 1959 © Carel Willink Fair Use
Plant Archetecture, 1962 © Remedios Varo
