Cup of Blooming Constellations

Floating through an endless sky
above a shifting desert
a craft built from scraps of dreams
darts ahead of a mad storm.

With haul full of memories,
malleable in the weather,
this dirigible makes way
to the woods on the mountains.

Where raging winds from the waste
dissipate into breezes
that play leaves of the beeches
calling to ships that wander.

This lighter than air vessel
with its own tamed storm engine
fights wild currents to escape
the cold lifeless desert’s void.