Caught in a cloud at SFO,
ferklempt with multi-continental fatigue
- your consciousness a kite
barely tethered by thread –
you raggedly radiated
inexhaustible delight.
My little meshugina
from decades past
( although evidently
an irreversible resident of recollection )
still inhabited
your large mischievous laugh -
the lyrical lilt of which
quickly recalled and reconciled
twenty years of unattended history
and 2464 miles.