I’ve been thinking lately about the cyclical nature of things (days, seasons, birthdays, wheels, traditions (like our April haiku), the endlessly reiterative process of revision) and, also, about the inevitability of change.

For me, rotation — pivoting around an axis, always returning to the original orientation and yet, not quite the same — is the perfect image for the intersection of these ideas. And there’s an extra nice echo to it today, this last day of April, this last day of poeming together.

Keep on rolling, friends, and I’ll see you back here next spring. Same-same, but different.

Rotation
Haiku 30

Return to yourself:
what goes around comes back changed
but the center holds

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