Keeping Things Whole
Wow I love this poem. It has a lot to say about life and how we are all particles of the Earth. I like the idea of air moving in to fill in the places my body has been. This is an odd concept, but it makes sense..I like that I move to keep the planet in harmony. My space is filled by air as if I was never there. It’s the replacement of nature by removing the body.
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So you say
by Mark Strand
It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness. The coming of cold,
the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world.
You take my arm and say something will happen,
something unusual for which we were always prepared,
like the sun arriving after a day in Asia,
like the moon departing after a night with us.
Compare this idea (“Keeping Things Whole”) with what you know of the Transcendental tradition. What do you discover?