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Stagecraft</span></strong></h3>
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house is dark. A silence, deep and pure,</span><br>
<span>Before the chaos that will make the cure.</span><br>
<span>A single ghost light on an empty stage,</span><br>
<span>A blank and tranquil, unenlightened page.</span></p>
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thought of applause, no future, and no past,</span><br>
<span>Just splintered wood and shadows we have cast.</span><br>
<span>The rope is coiled, the counterweight at rest,</span><br>
<span>In this great void, we put our craft to test.</span></p>
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measured breath. The hammer finds its mark,</span><br>
<span>Not as a noise within the echoing dark,</span><br>
<span>But as a note the universe has played.</span><br>
<span>A flat of canvas, patiently arrayed,</span></p>
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a wall, a sky, a distant shore,</span><br>
<span>Is both the thing itself and something more.</span><br>
<span>The sweep of brush that paints a linden tree</span><br>
<span>Is not for them, but for the one who sees.</span></p>
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actor's step, a quiet, focused tread,</span><br>
<span>Upon the boards where countless souls have bled</span><br>
<span>Their fictive joys. He finds his light, his place,</span><br>
<span>A moment of un-forcing, and of grace.</span></p>
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cue is called. It is not a command,</span><br>
<span>But the next wave that meets the waiting sand.</span><br>
<span>The curtain rises on a breath, not will,</span><br>
<span>A truth the empty space agrees to fill.</span></p>
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in the doing, with a mind made clear,</span><br>
<span>The magic finds its form and settles here.</span><br>
<span>Not built by force, but allowed to be born,</span><br>
<span>A world from silence, and a truth from scorn.</span></p>
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this is it: the sawdust and the soul,</span><br>
<span>The art of making broken pieces whole.</span><br>
<span>To build a dream with disciplined, calm hands,</span><br>
<span>And understand the wood where wonder stands.</span></p>
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