from underneath the footbridge where it passed
over low tide and the muck of low tide
as I passed above with a chatter of tires
of a sudden out clamored a flock of gulls
and their thick feet were tiling the flat sea with ripples
all in a pattern as if they had rehearsed it
and they were identically honking like toys
all in unison as if they had practiced it
as if I were the catastrophe they had been waiting for

Image: Trying to escape the winter by Susanne Nilsson, published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) license.