Poet Kit Robinson' s Thought Balloon is part of his continuing experiment with what's occurring for him right now while he's writing. " Time is scenes. / Cut the deck / And lay the cards down one by one." Yet Thought Balloon is not shoot-from-the-hip writing. The thoroughness of Robinson's investigation of the moment produces countless themes and times, multiple scales and languages, frequent among the common speech of a west coast bard in his prime thinking back to Pleistocene predators.