Quagga

The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of the plains  zebra that lived in South Africa until the nineteenth century.

Mixed Media: cigar box, vintage tool, other found metal and rubber.

11" x 4 1/2" x 9"

I want to say that I remember you.

The wide savannah in your eye,

Duns and browns and rocks and sky.

I want to say that I remember you.

Not as souvenir of colonial hubris 

Alone and without foal in a northerly Zoo.

That orgy of destruction, can we pray that it is over yet?

But traveling through rippling grass

Toward a horizon as far as the ocean’s 

The earth pulsing at your feet.