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.