keeping things whole by mark strand

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.


When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.


We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.


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of existance, humanity, melancholy


relations zhuangzi {discussion on making all things equal, trans. burton watson}, alan weisman {the world without us}, sara teasdale {there will come soft rains}