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“Separation”

BY: Jasmine Germain

(A response to Mark Strand’s “Keeping Things Whole”)

The things we keep close

That keep things whole, Slowly shift

They are torn away and a new world is presented

Rules, Standards< and many many questions

Each day, crazier than the next

It's hard to keep things whole, when they just aren't

When you are not absent from the field, but the field, is absent from you

When the “wherever” is what is missing

When you walk, all that moves is the air from your air conditioning

And circles around the same 4 rooms your body has been

Everyone reflects on their reasons to move

Because now? We have less space.