Wednesday I picked up

An attractive young woman

Hitchhiking in the high country

In Yosemite Park

We hit it off well

And ended up cruising through the park

For the rest of the day,

Stopping frequently

To walk and take pictures

At one point we were

Heading down a path

Through huge trees

And I started telling Alison

About The Celestine Prophecy

I only got to tell her

About what the book says

About the power of old forests

And about coincidences

Later we were waiting in a short line

To register for tent cabins

When I noticed a fellow

In a line opposite ours

Who looked familiar

He looked at me the same way

And then it came to me --

He and I had chatted a few times

While we were working at Siemens

In Princeton two summers ago

We reintroduced ourselves --

He's Paul Munro

In an aside to Alison

I simply smiled and said something about

How we had just been

Talking about coincidences

Then Alison and I had to focus on

Getting settled for the night

And when we'd finished and I looked for Paul

He had disappeared

I told Alison that

Maybe I'd bump into him again

Later that day I did