Memory Care

Poem - by Gene Twaronite

Preserved like a dragonfly caught in flight, each delicate tracery 

of winged thought kept forever sharp and catalogued 

at precise moment of impact, awaiting future cognitive 

reconstruction of all she knew about the invaders’ 

defenses and plans of 

attack and what her 

brain recorded as 

the extraterrestrial 

desperately tried

to communicate  

before she 

stepped 

across 

the line 

to enter 

the mine-

field.