ONE FOR BECKETT

An trained actor
returns from history plays
with her dramatic physicality
intact by reflected lines
on her haunted face
once told by her great aunt
from Oxford
who met an ex clairvoyant
that she will be protected
knowing what humanity sets
in first drafts of second acts
the second thoughts
not distressed in Beckett's trilogy
all alone on the stage
feeling no longer anonymous
doing as a life would have it
unraveling lines by surveying
a show of applause hands
united beyond theory.