<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="ydp8d1609eMsoNormal">Change</p><p class="ydp8d1609eMsoNormal" dir="" data-setdir="true">The air is changed today,<br class="">soaked in eucalyptus and moisture.<br class="">Today this is a place<br class="">I want to visit!<br class=""><br class="">Memories: the long daily processions<br class="">up the steps from Parking,<br class="">along the path to our door, <br class="">the sun no friend<br class="">or just back from being possessed <br class="">by a  stern twin.<br class=""></p><div class=""><font class=""><font class=""><br class="">Pockets of sweetness<br class="">the days I had to venture out early,<br class="">when God was still giving out<br class="">kisses on the breeze.<br class=""><br class="">Now, everything new<br class="">like the first snow that year in St. Louis<br class="">covering and making unrecognizable<br class="">the already strange shapes of brick,<br class="">metal. and the tarpapered roof<br class="">of that odd old apartment building.<br class=""><br class="">Perhaps the purpose of monotony<br class="">is only to make room<br class="">for something amazing<br class=""></font><div class="">waiting to happen.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">   </span>- Max Reif</font></div></font></div></div></body></html>