Day 4

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.

- Mark Strand

- - -

A Note Would be Nice
In accordance
With not being
Here, You
Might have considered
Leaving a note
On the door
Or at least occasionally
Dropping a line

____ Or by
In the form of
Some terrible, great
Comfortable Lion
Maybe staying
The night, and in
The morning
If you have to
Go, leaving

A lock of your lion’s mane
In a golden locket
On a golden chain
Wrapped sleepily in my forgetting
Hands until you come
Again

- tony