im sooooo drained

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Keeping Things Whole
by 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.

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[shaluvk.livejournal.com]

i'd never read mary oliver before. wild geese- just what i need- to wrench me out of my despair and show me my place in the family of things. amen.