In a dream
I learned to breath underwater
by training my hands to be fish
Whale song drew me
to swim to the bottom of the warm sea
and rest among granite boulders
on clean white sand
The ripples on the ocean surface
were prisms that bent the light
and delivered these obtuse rays
to the ocean floor
where I lay
Among brightly colored fish
I looked up through the sea
There above in the natural air
the openings and closings of history
were smudges on a blurry sky
My family drifted by as clouds
seeming to search for me
with eyes of glass
guided by seagulls and pelicans
My home receded
to a pinpoint
located nowhere
and everywhere
As I chose to remain a while
I wondered how long
until somehow invited I kicked
and pulled up
into the human space above