Just Hatched Baby Snails

There were literally 100 baby snails on that one garbage can lid. Maybe a bunch of mother snails got together to give birth, sort of like in the spirit of a support group! I can't even imagine how one

I saw them all on a 

garbage can lid, 

left overnight 

in the front flowerbed

teeming with 

women's art pin-esque

lily-of-the-valley.

100 just-hatched miniatures,

each smaller than 

a matchstick head,

shells perfect, intact,

antenna tip balls

the size of a speck

of white pepper.

Who is this genius,

this artist insane with love,

thinking this up?

My mouth dropped, like 

a gaping nestling's in April.

I go to church in my garden.