CIRCLE POEM      

     
a circle    forms    some sense    i had      
       
    a motion    felt    a voice    i heard      
       
inside    arose    came out    a thought      
       
    reduced    two words    or one    became      
       
the way    that i    express    the long      
       
    into    the short    of it    some length      
       
some width    some height    some depth          
       
    some two    word phrase    compressed to          
       
semi summarize    the open    ended whole    of it
      
     an abstract    way to    filter out    the bare          
       
essential    basic bones    of it          
       
    reduced into    the even    briefer      
       
short    of it    compressed    on page              
       
    its essence    condensed    to shape          
       
the overall    inner form   and sum    of it          
       
    into    this simple    poem          
       
a circle    comes into    this thing          
       
    a sense    i had    a motion    felt          
       
a voice    i heard    inside    arose          
       
    came out    a thought    reduced          
       
two words    or one    somehow    became      
       
    this way    i now    express    the long          
       
into    the short    of it    some length      
       
    some width    some height    some depth          
       
some two    word    phrase to    semi summarize      
       
    the open    ended    whole    of it          
       
an abstract    way    to filter    out      
       
    the bare    essential    basic bones    of it          
       
reduced    into    the even    briefer      
       
    short    of it    compressed    on page          
       
its essence    condensed    to shape    the overall      
       
    inner form    and sum    of it          
       
into this    simple poem    a circle    comes      
       
    around and    around    and around      
       
like some    circular wind    within it      
       
    to swallow    its tail    more or less    
     
back to     where it     first began    
     
     here yet     again     once more  
   
only to     so unexpectedly     become  
   
     this     loopy  little     circle poem  
 
now formed     into the     even greater  
 
     full circumference     whole     of it  
 
into both     the long     and short     of it  
 
     this circle     has now     quietly come  
 
full circle     full hoop     to finally  
 
     become     this loopy     little  
 
circle poem     now     round

     and round    aboutly  
 
done