1

I want to get
to the managed care

evening,
where the future appears

to stream directly
into the past

with brief time-outs,
“nows,”

for setting preferences.

2

When wolves converge
on prisons,

when bats cover
solar panels

crashing power grids,

a safari guide,
a scientist
with a troubled past,
and a secret agent

must concentrate
to solve problems.

3

A chemical tracer sent;
a firing sequence

repeated
(or tap dance performed)

to bring back
pieces

of the past
in 3-D and color.

That is not my mother!