1.

Eating breakfast cereal,

Reading Scientific American

Article on Santa Fe Institute

Photo of scientist

Thomas S. Ray

Working in artificial life

Features screen in background

2D Death's-head (skull)

Incongruous on screen

Among 3D abstract shapes

Representing lifeforms

2.

After breakfast,

Reading morning paper

Photo on front sports page

From yesterday's NLCS game

Odd composition --

Braves pitcher Tom Glavine on right

And on left in background

But out of focus

Huge banner on outfield wall

Of Pirates' logo

Of skull-and-crossbones

3.

Racquetball over at school

After reading some 1926 Tom Swift

Walking through parking lot

Home-painted car

Has skull-and-crossbones

Filling driver's door

Facing me broadside

4.

Waiting for dinner to bake,

Reading Tom Swift again

Mentions eccentric

With unusual name of

Wakefield Damon

Who spoke of his motorcycle,

Which later became Tom's,

As follows:

"I never thought the contraption

Was going to climb trees!"

The winning Pirate pitcher

In yesterday's NLCS game

Was Tim Wakefield

5.

Eating dinner casserole,

Reading Scientific American

Article on driverless cars

Unexpected reference to

When "a robotic vehicle

Was as likely to

Drive up the side of a tree

As down a blacktop path..."

This image is

Distantly reminiscent of

The action captured in

Flowing Squirrel

And this description

Brings to mind the line

Which generated Nonsonnet:

Black top orders head trees

And of course there's no connection

Between the Pirate fans'

Large orange foam-rubber hooks

And Captain Hook,

A main character a month ago in

MJ Between NJ and LJ (Peace of my Mind)