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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Another Circle Theory

Is there a purpose to all this spinning?

Somehow I made it through
the fog of mosquitoes
and back to my home,
to this familiar ground
where my grounding
is based on recognizing
all those things I know
as we move ever-so-slowly
in that eternal continuum
called space and time.

Whenever I travel
I inevitably fall headlong
into all of those things
I think are my life,
yet lead me nowhere
except round and round
and then mercifully,
back to myself.

I’ll be damned
if everything isn’t a circle!

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