Wilderspool Causeway

See the leaf blowers by the Cornerstone:
leaves and dust, a brief step back
as if new combinations of air and sound
were a threat to the slow-paced man
in thin black jacket and white canvas cap.
See the sign language rumination
through ironies of dust blown from a cemetery
to a leaf blower in a cocoon of sound
conversing only through movement
every passer-by thinks they understand.