Rain and the Snails

by Freeman Ng

rain! and the snails
make a run for it they're
everywhere gliding
across the sidewalks under
foot another and
another there a fleet
of them they bow
their heads into it racing
from their garden shrubs
their softening fences you
can almost see the wakes they lay
across the liquid pavement


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