“Everybody movin’ if they ain’t already there
Everybody got to move somewhere…”
…………………………—Bob Dylan, Mississippi
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 has been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
by Mark Strand
from The Norton Anthology, 2003