“Can We See that Part Again?”

by Richard Fenton Sederstrom / March 14th, 2021

No matter
how much you want me to
no matter
what you have missed
in your chatter about what you have
missed

I will not turn this video back.
I will not replay
for with my luck
today I would leave
the tape as it is and run
back

our fragile lives
all the way to the beginning—
and my beginning,
which happened again
just this morning
is

already too distant not
to have entered
that vale of fears
dark matter
deaf
monotony of ungoverned abyss: 20/20 entropy.

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, March 14th, 2021 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.