I recently happened upon a poem I wrote in class the very first day of this 360 after we finished a mental mapping exercise. I found it this week right after we did another mental map after a tour of Hamburg and felt compelled to write a poem about it. It’s crazy to look back on the first day of the 360 and consider how my ideas about space and identity have changed since then. Here is the second poem, which I wrote this week. 

Landmarks

Walk two meters down to observe the site where I

smiled at a cute boy on bike and he smiled back

(because I was a cute girl on no bike)

And here

is where I found my people,

boyfaced and name-tagging

If you travel to the Hauptbahnhof,

walk through the Northeast exit,

and walk a few paces more,

you can see the historical site where, in 2013,

a hungry young woman spontaneously transcended mortality

by way of a

truly great pretzel.