A different vantage,
different view
seeing the office
from the other side
of the desk
Familiar, in a way,
when he sat there, working
my father, at his desk,
but different now
as it is mine
my things on its surface
covering more of its area
without the order
he maintained
all those years ago
June 6, 2007 21:18
(Raymond A. Foss)
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