Populate the trees
with hats, smack leaves
against rain
boots, a pink storm-
water task force.
Kick conker shells
until they pop,
release you glossy
and new. Darken into life
like a polaroid; sluice
out of your chest
with your breath.
It’s starting
to rain. It’s raining
umbrellas. No one’s
getting wet.
Annette C. Boehm’s book The Knowledge Weapon is available from Bare Fiction, and her chapbook The Five Parts of Love is available from dancing girl press. She is a poetry reader for Memorious. She blogs at annettecboehm.wordpress.com.