flash

like a comet
with a beautiful tail
streaking through your orbit

a flirtation
out of reach
still you're winking out of habit

you're landscape 
under her flight path, brother
one dash in a dotted line

one wish
in a billion of bedside whispers
cast into the sky

and she's gone
before you 
know it

and all
you got is
what you saw

just a fleeting
frozen memory
unable to thaw