Floating

Rarer than you were?
Almost a sky in sea
or a skin lifted on breath,
tracing-paper-thin,
coaxed by a current.

Carrier, no more virgin.
A grand breach renders you art;
embryonic folds untwist
like white flames, luminous,
suspended in clear blue.

Sheer as chiffon, merest gauze,
floating for long decades,
breaking down in silt, or soil.
A scrap, briefly dancing,
washed in cerulean.