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.

Strand is talking about the feeling of being present and completing the puzzle. When I first read the poem I read it as pessimistic but I reread it and strand is writing about his self worth and appreciating himself and moving forward in life. I like happy poems feels good man.