Mark Strand: 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 in

 to fill the spaces

 where my body's been.

 We all have reasons

 for moving.

 I move

 to keep things whole.