"In a field I am the absence of field.That 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 space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole."

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Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.79, Knopf

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