It’s sandal season—
you bring back a blister
from the canal.
*
Light from the water
plays on the steel girders.
A train’s screeching wheels.
*
Leading a crew
of gnomes and potted plants,
the jolly roger.
*
After the canal boat passes,
the huge floating leaf
reverses course.
*
Lowering their heads in threat
again and again: geese
with a single gosling.
*
Where the high-speed
train will run,
the drillers’ four-storey screw.
*
Behind the supermarket,
the pigeons line up
for crumbs of bread.
*
You can find her by the ding
of bicyclists’ bells:
the deaf dog.
*
Leaning out over
the green water,
he paints the boat green.
*
“End-of-life
destination for cars”—
and next door, stacks of tires.
