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Dave Nielsen: Home Office

October 28, 2014 by PBQ

He sits down at his computer
and opens a folder

and discovers a folder
he’d forgotten about

and opens it
and discovers another folder

he doesn’t recognize
and opens it

and now a folder
a sort of backup

he remembers creating
years ago

and opens it
and discovers a folder

so deep inside the computer,
he turns around

seeing himself
through the wrong end

of a telescope
and at last comes to a folder

The Very First Folder
and hesitates

his finger slipping
just enough

that all of the folders collapse
—so close

so close

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Issue 90, Poetry, Poetry 90 Tagged With: Contributors 90, Dave Nielsen, Poetry, Poetry 90

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