Wednesday, July 9, 2008

THE ACTOR PAUSES

"The poem of the mind in the act of finding what will suffice. It did not always need to know; the scene was set; it repeated what was in the script." Stevens

The Actor Pauses
Steps out of his role
stands back
ignores the lines that
yesterday whispers in his ear

Silent
aware
hears the chatter
the king of the mountain
demands for utterance
this thought
that

Watches without attachment
not a whiff of answers
only breath
relaxation
just this
just now

1 comment:

Dr. Jay SW said...

Roles...so (relatively) easy to see, so hard to actually step out of....