An Actor Prepared Poem by Laurence Overmire

An actor experiences
Other people’s lives
Through a metamorphosis of mind

Words sifted through a membrane of
Archetypal truth

Emotion held in space and time
And passed from body to body
Becoming real and imagined

On stages of humanity
Bound together
In the fabric draped from
Shoulder
to
loin

Footfalls on a distant planet
Three orbits from the sun.


(Previously published in Report From X-Star 10, Indelible Mark Publishing,2009)