Refracting Light

I am not distinct or separate
As much as I’d like to think so
The thread of the air is woven through
My lungs
Stitched into the fabric of the sky
I breathe the trees
I cry the waters
I eat the dust of the stars
I am
Because you are
And you are
Of me
There is no disconnection
Except in the vanity of our own
Deceiving minds.

Laurence Overmire is an American actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry has been or will be published in "Kimera," "The Penwood Review," "Nuthouse," "Lynx Eye," "Emotions," "Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "The Laire," "Uprising," "Office Number One," "Superior Poetry News," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Children, Churches and Daddies," "The Gentle Survivalist," "Short North Gazette," "Nomad's Choir," "Improvijazzation Nation," "The Writer's Exchange," "Over the Back Fence Magazine," "Niederngasse," "Apples and Oranges," "Pegasus," "Blind Man's Rainbow," Wings," "L'Intrigue," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol. No. Magazine," "Some Words," "Shadyvale Magazine," "Transcendant Visions," "Art Villa," "Bonfire," "Ygdrasil," "Aileron," "Barbaric Yawp," "Webstatic," "Seeker Magazine," "Ixion," "Unlikely Stories," "Poetry in the Light," "Horsethief's Journal," "Avalon," "Mind Fire Poetry Journal," "Burn," "ArtsFusion," "Manx Fiction," "Eclectica," "ShallowEND," "Carved in Sand," "The Courtship of Winds," "Psychopetica" and others.

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