Starting with fairy tales, we swing,
these hazy summer days, from heroes’ feats
down through the intricate workings of a blood cell
and back to songs that mermaids sing.
Galaxies unimaginably vast
born where space and time curl up together
(or is it that they die there?)
become just one more story of the past.
Together you and I
scan the enormous tome we may be near
the end of, stubbornly
seeking in chaos evidence of choice:
black hole, lightning, dinosaur, virus—chosen!
Your guiding clue is mine, a mother’s voice.
