Like white, silken banners
unfurling into the amber
orange of sunsets

Clouds
like cotton ball balloons
rising up, up and away
into roofless skies

Clouds like clipper ships
with all of their sails set
sailing off across oceans
to London, Hong Kong,
Rio de Janeiro

Clouds becoming chrysanthemums
becoming seagulls
becoming kites
becoming windmills
becoming

Thunderheads and umbrellas

Clouds like castles
of white, limestone battlements
with crenulated walls
and soaring towers

Clouds like cities of skyscrapers
floating above prairies

Clouds
like mountains of white, chalk cliffs
and snow capped peaks
disappearing

into thin air