What would it be like
to program a time machine,
not with dates,
but with memories --
the color of grass in late summer,
the taste of a lover’s kiss,
the smell of cookies baking,
the weightlessness at the top of a swing’s arc
the sound of rain on a nursery roof --
orienting travel within the timestream
based on that which makes us
most fundamentally ourselves?

 

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Navigation of Memory by Elizabeth Barrette
originally published in the Summer 2012 print edition

 

 


Elizabeth Barrette writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in the fields of speculative fiction, gender studies, and alternative spirituality. She serves on Torn World's Canon Board, and hosts a monthly Poetry Fishbowl at The Wordsmith’s Forge, writing poems based on audience prompts. Her website PenUltimate Productions lists her writing and editing work, along with resources about crowdfunding. Her book Prismatica: Science Fiction Poetry Spanning the Spectrum came out in December 2010. She enjoys suspension-of-disbelief bungee-jumping and spelunking in other people’s reality tunnels.

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