A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry is a book of poems inspired by the collective nouns associated with groups of animals.
The collective noun for zebras happens to coincide with the pedestrian walkway known as Zebra Crossing.
The title poem for this book follows:
A crossing of zebras zig-zags left to right
then left to right. It's really a delight
to watch their fancy footwork, hooves in flight.
You first see white-and-black, then black-and-white
except, of course, if it's a moonless night,
in which case you see only black-and-black.
What can I say? I'm giving you the facts
in black and white.
