sometimes i fear there is so much else and too little of us
sometimes i fear the dunes might be blown away like a wish and with it, you
sometimes i fear the grass will break you, zebra of dreams
sometimes i fear the turn of the spindle and how it weaves its endless thorns
sometimes i fear i dreamed you and now i am awake-alone
sometimes i fear i cannot take my bed up and follow you into those blue shadows
sometimes i fear the moon will disappear and leave just a sun to parch
sometimes i fear for what we know we have missed under this vast dark ocean
sometimes i fear the world is us and we are the world going by, going slowly by
sometimes i fear we wash our hands of this port and set sail in endless separation
sometimes i fear what our knowing all this may do to me and do to you
sometimes i fear for the flowers in our garden that grow down
but when i straddle your back
and the wind sweeps us into that rainbow
over the plains and
onto our mountain where the raindrops gather
we soar
we soar
sometimes
you
and
i
just
fly
tijuana zebras have been a popular tourist attraction in tijuana, mexico, a city that borders the united states, since the 1940s. the tijuana painted donkey, or tijuana zebra, came about some time in the middle of the twentieth century. the reason for painting the donkeys was to ensure that the animal be seen in photographs. since the donkeys were mostly white, on sunny days with the old black and white cameras the donkey would be seen as a ghostly figure. a long-time tourist staple, the donkeys live on a hillside below the casa de la cultura in tijuana.
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