Keeping Things Whole: How Do you Open to New Possibilities?

Suburbia (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

Yesterday in a quick Twitter exchange with Pam Moran (@pammoran) she commented on the importance of administrators developing voice. I thought about what that might mean as well as what might inhibit one from developing a voice.  At this same time I was reading and stumbled upon "Keeping Things Whole," that American poet, Mark Strand (1980) wrote.

Keeping Things Whole

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.

Here's a visual interpretation of the poem:




So I am curious as to how you open yourself to (k)new possibilities?  What does opening yourself to possibility mean given the work you perform, the life you compose, the art you become?

I move/
to keep things whole.

How about you?


Work Cited:
Strand, M. (1980). Selected poems. New York: Atheneum.