Keeping Things Whole from “Sleeping with one eye open”

Mariagrazia Pontorno, Tutto ciò che so

September 5, 2018

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.

Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014)

Cover: Mariagrazia Pontorno, Tutto ciò che so, solo exhibition seen at Galleria Passaggi (Pisa, IT) on 2015