Laurence Overmire - 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.


(Previously published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Winter 2000; Thanal Online, June 2006))

Laurence Overmire

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