lundi, juillet 30, 2007
I am the absence
I do not know if it is still familiar to you. Another thought came to me today, the thought that I would rather be missed/noticed when I am missing, than to be noticed when I am present.
It is easy to notice what is right in front of you, it is far more difficult to notice what is missing.
just one of the little different ways in which I live, in which I see things, in which I am me.
do you live?
I am the absence
ages ago there was this piece of writing:
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.
Mark Strand
I do not know if it is still familiar to you. Another thought came to me today, the thought that I would rather be missed/noticed when I am missing, than to be noticed when I am present.
It is easy to notice what is right in front of you, it is far more difficult to notice what is missing.
just one of the little different ways in which I live, in which I see things, in which I am me.
do you live?
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