Poof, they're gone!

I dunno know if it is because of the time of the year (winter, below zero) and attendant lack of sunlight, but lately people have been disappearing before my eyes, some of which were not surprises but others, in a word, mysterious...now a friend has left for a visit to that former Danish protectorate, Iceland, and I knew she was going a couple days prior...we actually saw Synecdoche in New York the night before she left and I am left wondering if this is where people who disappear end up: Iceland, I mean...I just don't know...she disappeared for band practice so I wandered off for something to eat and ran into another friend who was also to disappear (for the second time in several weeks) and thought this time, I had better keep both eyes open...to recap, a few weeks back, she swung by in her trusty Subaru and off we went to a local bar...it was incredibly dark in Bar Harbor owing to there being a power outage and when she parked and we got out, POOF, she disappeared...not within sound of my voice, not within range of my limited vision in the black night, I ambled off to the bar thinking she would be there already...no such luck so I felt my way home, grabbed a flashlight and went back to the bar, where I heard her voice ask in the semi-darkness where had I been...she maintained that she had been there all along and what had happened to me, did I get a better deal somewhere down the street...POOF...no amount of explaining could solve the mystery of that lost time...as I said that was several weeks ago and I had almost forgotten about it when POOF, it happened again last night...we grabbed a bite to eat along with several delicious whisky samplers at another local watering hole before heading to the BAR OF THE FIRST DISAPPEARANCE...everything fine, even played a little bar trivia to be a good sport...bear in mind that the temps outside were about 10 below zero...she got up and walked throught the door, leaving her new down parka behind and POOF, she was once again gone...haven't connected with her since, tried reaching her by phone to wish her happy birthday, but as of this moment, POOF!