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A
Change
Of
Perspective
In
the
shade
of
the
sheltering
pines
I
whiled
many
an
hour
away,
dreaming
of
city
lights
and
skyscrapers,
places
I
only
knew
about
from
reading
frayed
old
books
borrowed
from
a
small
rural
school
library.
How
I
longed
to
flag
a
fast
train
and
be
whizzed
away
from
the
seclusion
of
my
father's
one-horse
farm,
to
find
my
place
in
crowded
streets
far
removed
from
the
humdrum
sameness
of
my
childhood
existence.
After
forty
years
of
sweat
and
toil
among
the
clang
and
clamor
of
my
uptown
life,
my
soul
now
yearns
for
whispering
pines,
where
the
occasional
caw
of
a
crow
is
the
only
raucous
sound.
Copyright
©
1995
Ruth
Gillis
"A
Change
Of
Perspective"
received
a
Second
Place
Award
in
the
January
1997
issue
of
RB's
Poets'
Viewpoint.
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