The Ethanol Boom

An ocean breeze competes w/the
traffic on Hwy 1 for our
eternally divided attention
as we paddle across the street
to La Esperanza
for enchilada sauce & Negra Modelo
feeling twilight in our bones
based on a true story
w/a seacloud halo
like the birth of the cool
derailing the latest fact-finding mission
a theme you made your own
a skipping wheel
a missing fuse-link plug nickel
of sky
falling through the hole in
god’s pocket