Comet

If you’re the one

that sent me a comet

shortly before 8pm

last night

then know that it did

arrive and was

brilliant 

like a burst of 

star stuff

or a solar flare

or a flag of delight

spreading through the room.

I don’t demand 

comets every day

or any kind of offering 

but that one was 

turquoise and indigo and gold

and rather nice 

so I send my thanks

back along the arc

to wherever you are

moving pieces

of the universe. 

Magister may

also have seen it

but in the way of cats

he didn’t have anything 

to say

being more occupied

with performing 

the rites of the evening

as he does

in the proper hour. 

I assume

the comet’s orbit

was hyperbolic

as it went over the bed

and disappeared

into infinity

but I am not an expert

on the behavior 

of planetary systems

especially not

the kind that

arrive unheralded

into the house.