“leaves after rain” by Daniel A. Nicholls

tails up they are
a field of pointsetters
and I am god of the hunt
skittling across the wet cement
they are fivescore happy yapping clam lips
and I am Poseidon come to give them
their pearls by hand

Daniel A. Nicholls can be found declaiming poets and poetry on Twitter (@nomopoetry) and Tumblr (nomopoetry.tumblr.com). He has other poems online at Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing as well as Commas and Colons and Halfway Down the Stairs.