from an eighteen year absence as I stood staring into the silver surface awaiting the appearance as she would once again part the mirrors glaze sudden thrill of foreboding anxiety passes across me as ribbon of silk lace or that momentary nostril flair when a sudden snare of rarified air plays havoc on the ancient receptors nearly forgotten as aromatic sprites pass along those corridors memories reside and sometimes hide behind doors of this maze awash in the dusty overlay of that which still seeking to delay realities consistently amass when a graphic form of de ja vu breaks thru passing and suddenly does appear as calm still silver slightly shivers then parts to deliver the hand and then humanistic form to reach for the rounded edge of porcelain solidity gasping in oxidized atmosphere i watch decades lost disappear as if only yesterday i stood here and again this the norm in wordless anomalous aplomb i watch her face apperceive my image as i etch the scene so intent upon my scrivener scrawl in my rush to capture all onto my minds private wall that only in the faintest of my subconscious can i recall the echo call my name as she covered all distance between attaching herself in ways far beyond the physical bond and thru time uncertain beyond the curtain we fall tumbling into that void where nothing exists outside that infinitesimal moment of infinity with the eventual return to the constraints passing back thru the curtain and time certain reapplied once again the prisoner of the laws of time space and the reality of gravity plans made to meet later to catch up with those details with smile i say thank you for that ride her eyes twinkle and i know with absolute certainty she understood exactly what i meant that is why she said i still do this everyday as i am addicted to that moment when Einsteins laws don't exist then with laughter she denied me an answer to the question on my face later she said and up she went so i paused at the door to watch her grace from a hundred feet high she bounced and leaped into the air then i saw what i had just missed
for there she was not going up and not coming down suspending all physical laws and she was unbound weightless and free and addicted
and right then i had to admit to myself ....i was a bit jealous but nowhere near as brave as i watched her reenter that mirror.