March 27: X

Photo: Zebra, Hluhluwe Game Preserve, South Africa

Xebras

They dance across the plains 

with their mauve stripes in the

day's first sunset, radiant golden.

Who remembers their foremothers

of Earth, millennia ago, with it's

single sun, zebras then. But for

our world spelled xebra, with a

silver horn and rippling flanks,

able to hear vibrations of the

moons and the planet's rumblings

and communicate warnings 

of quakes and monster tides. 

Their image graces our coins

and stand marble in city squares.

They have saved us more

times than we can count,

our guardian xebras.