Ode To The Uncle Vanya Players Poem by Jimi Doyle

which line is better:

'art gives proof to our ideals'
or
'art gives truth to our ideals'?

phrases are limestone crusts,
trudged into dust and footprints;

Uncle Vanya, in the back part
of a storefront theater,

to an audience
unknowable each night
chaos grifted
foolish
lonesome
lost

from the players
somehow filled with courage,
somehow filled with hope,

is an acrobat

of water, oxygen and light