Hot air balloons, relinquished
floating in the sky
colorful like tropic fish
in an aerial aquarium
Up and up, through clouds of coral
swim stingray kites and whale planes
looking right and wrong and strange, like morals
swimming in a liquid dream
All the things you love and dread,
the things that inundate your head.
amaze and astound,
as well as they drown
the ones ensconced on their shorelines.