A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence. - Mark Strand

I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript.

The elements I need to write are a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. ... I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing alive.

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.