Today I happened upon a large group of leaf blowers
like actual men, with leaf blowers on their backs
It was a huge pack
I don’t know if that’s what you call a large group of leaf blowers
a pack
so I look up different
collective nouns for animals
and I wonder what this group would be called

to help decide you must picture this
large group of men, with leaf blowers on their backs
clouds of decomposed leaf dust surrounding them
leaking into the street even
with the leaves not yet wrangled there in the street too
they barely slowed when I drove by
and I wondered if they would just blow the brown dust all over my car
or in it
or perhaps blow my van away
it was a very large group of leaf blowing men, so I don’t now how much power that many leaf blowers have!

I’m not sure if pack is the right term for this group
maybe
a parade, like elephants or
a flight, like insects
a school, like dolphins
Let’s remember they were singularly focused, and on my brief driving by encounter,
I did not encounter
much consideration

so maybe
a band, like gorillas
a conspiracy, like lemurs or
an army, like ants makes the most sense
certainly not
a parliament, like owls or
a charm, like finches

They startled my landscape so
I wanted to snap a picture of the gang, like elk, of these
leaf blowers
but by the time I drove by again
they had disappeared, as if never there
as if I had imagined them
like a leap of leopards
a skulk of foxes
a murder of crows
a scurry of squirrels
a deceit of lapwings
and all they left was a large pile of dead leaves and twigs
in their wake