14. Keeping Things Whole

오늘은 좋아하는 캐나다 시인 Mark Strand 의 시 “Keeping things whole” 를 소개해드립니다. Columbia 대학에서 Creative Writing 을 가르쳤으며, 1999 년도에 Pulitzer 상을 수상을 했습니다.

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.