Keeping Things Whole
-- 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.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47541/keeping-things-whole
We All Have Reasons / for Moving Often, I do it because wherever I am becomes, as a result, somewhat unpleasant; thus I attempt to inhabit someone else's space. Un- fortunately, though, wherever I go there I am, and so I must find another place to be, etcetera and so forth ad nauseam.
Suggested soundtrack: Anything by The National.
