Octavio’s Lighthouse

I miss you in Hawaii

the oxygen 

depletion remission 

is working well

thanks to the remaining 

biodiversity

my cultural detox

is going to be 

out in the deep stream

the one with 

its headwaters

robed in smoke

I got to meet 

the habitual system 

it was posh

dressed in vogue

which was rakish

the pelicans 

were preening one feather 

at a time

and so I wouldn’t 

be banished 

to walk the wide world

ad infinitum

I rose up 

with all my moxie

to applaud

Octavio’s lighthouse.