Choose

by Richard Fenton Sederstrom / July 5th, 2020

“We need to be able to choose
our battles,” said the leader
of people devoted to non-

violence – a tenet we adopt
in order to contain the base
violence we abhor when

we employ the non that we,
well, abhor in our fashion too.
So, in non-battling we order

the prescribed silver chalices,
but we pay just a bit more
for the ones that look,

by an accident of peaceful
indiscretion, like patterned
steel, the design of swords.

Richard Fenton Sederstrom was raised and lives in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and the North Woods of Minnesota. Sederstrom is the author of eight books of poetry, his latest book, The Dun Book, published by Jackpine Writers' Bloc, was released last fall. Read other articles by Richard Fenton.

This article was posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2020 at 8:04am and is filed under Poetry.