Keeping Things Whole...

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Image: Shaahin Madani

Keeping Things Whole

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 into fill the spaces

where my body's been.

We all have reasons

for moving.

I move

to keep things whole.
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Mark Strand

from Selected Poems