Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand

After reading all of the assigned poems for today's blog I came back to this one only. This poem to be is very interesting because it is written about a topic that no one ever really talks about. The idea that the space that you are occuping is no longer filled with air, but with you, is an idea that is odd to think about. Yet, the idea is still there, when you are somewhere, that space is then different. I think that this poem holds a lot of poignancy within it because it does address the idea that when you are somewhere, you are the absense of that very place. Does this make you feel empty inside? Because when you are just in air's space, does that mean that your insides don't count. To be wherever you and be what is missing in fact is something that is hard to understand fully. I had to go over this idea in my mind before it made sense to me, I think that is what I like about this poem exactly. This idea of occupying a space but then becoming what was in that space before is reason enough to keep moving to keep things "whole". This poem deals with the time/space measurement because in a way you are measuring what is taking up the space at the given point in time. This poem to me poses an interesting idea and I think is written well.