Gyre

By Deane Barker

Definition: a circular or spiral movement pattern

It comes from the Latin word for “circle.”

Why I Looked It Up

I found it in the Yeats poem “The Second Coming.”

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer…

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