peppered with windows
a spire with a spotlight
like a guiding star

oceanic minaret
forever floating off
the festival vessel

implicated hulk
seems an empty
kind of lively

like a
birthday room
without a door

beside this iron
christmas tree
waves turn into rubies

looks just like
the spindly streets
of Dubai on takeoff

for a 9 hour trip back home,
but none of those places
are home anymore

floating away,
the globbing lights
become a single dot

and vanish.