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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.
* * *
"Keeping Things Whole" from
Selected Poems
by Mark Strand. Copyright © 1979, 1980. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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