sketch 5

His eyes fixate vhs,
running time reverse.
three to four seconds
reviewed and relived--
three to four seconds
stretched into hours.
the eyes go white
noise and static
pours out his open
mouth. . .
his mother watches,
hears the whurr-
shut-click-and high
pitched hum of a
Zenith 4head world
repeat history
for her son. . .
the over and over
reducing time to
moments yoked
to a stretch of
magnetic celluloid.
movement reverses
truths and uncovers
a clean slate
where she is a stranger
walking backward
down the hallway
wanting to rewrite
the tide of her son’s
ever progressing
history.

pm soundtrack: bright eyes i'm wide awake it's morning; the replacements tim; snow patrol final straw; joni mitchell blue