Books piled on tables On the floor In a bookcase. Dogeared in places, Some open, most closed. To whom do they belong? Pictures ring the walls of the house. Children: older, younger, and younger still. Who are they, why are they here? Who lives here? Are they part of the houses soul, its essence? Pictures hung with magnets on the refrigerator door. More children, Slips of paper, notes, little pieces of nothing stuck on a door. Pictures of a man sitting next to two women. The women are not the same. Who are they ? What stories and tales could they tell? The man is the same, years apart, but the same. He is me.