Dazzle

Do you know what to call a group of zebras?

A dazzle.

Why didn't they teach me this in second grade?

Now that I know. 

This is what I've done...

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Art print by Anna Bond
www.riflepaperco.com

A group of zebras

A group of frazzled stripes

Pounding plains

Chasing frames

of loss and gain

to report to some carnivorous accountant

at year end

Thunder, hooves, hocus pocus

Serengetti stereograms 

beat greeting cards senseless

If you (just) shift your focus

I have a friend with stripes

that mystify shadows

some know more than I know

If I stay quiet

my lesser knowing may grow

If I stand up

If I speak up

Alright

He'll run

Then the others will come

as if at the shot of a gun

long distance dazzle

best with half the sun on its side

No escape

No pride

(Just) the rush

and long grass