AMNH (1986-1987)
for the late Sydney Anderson
I sat across from you
studying the Pleistocene
capricious and chill.
Brainy Primate types
riven by hostile climate
into their own kind.
(Her performance flexible as Rattus
following Schneirla
from a past with no future to a lab with no subjects.)
Your curator mind
preferring forests
hot and green.
