"Origins: the Birthplace of a Tumbleweed" poems about my home town
by Max Reif
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On a Visit to St. Louis, My Home Town
(2005)
Driving the mystic
mandala* of the city,
I'm an electron,
everywhere at once
and only a trail
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*mandala: from sanskrit, circle. Any circular design motif.
Mandalas are said to be symbolic of Wholeness.