18.

that driftwood cross on the beach

was for the crucifixion of a new slacker Jesus
but he denied it all and went surfing

it was to be, but instead, it wasn't

all the soldiers humped back over the dunes
and home, each with a gleaming string
of silver-pink fish pulled from the breaking
sea in that perfect hour after God's boy
turned the whole damn story upside down
and paddled out for another set

the tide will dismantle it