Red Tide

Robert Beveridge

Have we eaten? It’s time

for the movie but it feels

like there is an emptiness

behind my ribcage as large

as the gap between the eye

and the screen. We see

images of senryu, flashed

too fast to read, as the odor

of seafood left out just a few

minutes too long wafts

over us. Whose idea was it

to get ceviche sold

from the trunk of a ‘74

Gran Torino, anyway? We

look forward to the credits.