"Unsettled" is a short, fragmented poem that circles around fear and who gets to claim authority. It opens with a question, or maybe a challenge: who can tell the speaker who is "whole"? The next lines twist the word. "Whole" slides into "holy," then into "wholly still," and the sound-play suggests that being complete, being sacred and being frozen in obedience are tangled together. Fear of god seems to produce stillness rather than peace.
The second half widens out to politics. Every power, the speaker says, "must starve / some people or other," as if control depends on keeping someone in need. That leads to the final image: everybody fears invasion "by rain or quiet." Those two threats are odd and unsettling, one a noisy natural force and the other an absence of sound. The mood is wary and uneasy. The speaker doesn't offer comfort, only a sense that fear shapes belief, power and daily life.