numbers:apart

5 hours at a time
4 at another

5,305 air miles
(but not enough frequent flyer miles
 to be claimed
 for tickets
 to see you)

4,610 nautical miles
the Pacific Ocean
(largest of the world's
 five oceans)
the body of water
in between

the number of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, weeks, months, and years
as finite and infinite
as our schedules allow

but in my memories
and in my dreams

oh-so close
together