Sensing that Perfect, Isolated Wave

For Chris Kelly

Surfing Playa de Muertos,

a broken strap two-hundred

yards out.

Maybe it was safer

in the Suzuki on the way

to the beach or crusin’

the mountain roads of

Costa Rica on an

Enduro dirt bike.

Maybe it was safer

in the rental car for

three-plus hours

traveling to

the Costa Rica-

Nicaragua border.

Perhaps it would have been

safer staying in Puerto Rico.

Surely, Tampa, Florida’s iworld.