Reunion

[ChristopherSea]

Greetings Kreichert,  I love incorporating science into poetry.    However,
it is not always easy to do so with the proper accuracy.

I think ‘reverberated’ is the wrong word choice as it involves sound
and a touch would be more somatosensory, i.e., neuromuscular or chemoreceptor engaged.

By using ionization in a cloud chamber as a metaphor you employ an electromagnetic phenomenon.
Therefore, something in the vein of:

‘…conducted warmth or current through…’

would make more sense. It would also provide the energy source to melt those decades (sound would not).

Your punctuation is off because the second sentence is incomplete unless linked to the first. A 'comma' for that 'period' after 'melted' should rectify it.

Although I like it, you are a bit off in formulating the scientific metaphor.
The ions are a result of charged particle bombardment, they don’t do the moving.
They form the condensation nuclei for visualization. It is usually charged alpha- and/or
beta-particles that move through the chamber. You could substitute ‘particles’ for ‘ions
and maintain accuracy.

I don’t feel that the cloud chamber illustrates the sense of touch very well, but you do explain
how the touch brought forth the forgotten or obscured (the invisible) and that aspect is analogous
to what the chamber does.  

Possibly indicating what is sparked or visualized would help the reader better
once the metaphor is straightened out. As it sits, the piece is rather abstract.

Good luck with your next edit and welcome to the site.   /Chris