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Air thick with cowshit—

the Sonoma Aroma, Marissa calls it

people say no part of the county

lies beyond its reach, endearing stench

of my adopted home, much as when

after a long return flight to LA

I drove to the ocean to flood my sinuses

with wave-crushed air distilled by the night

and returned home windows-down

along winding canyon roads

to the comforting fragrance of skunk