Ephram Pratt Exits into the Silence
Ephram Pratt Exits into the Silence
by Jack e Lorts
Tucked into an opening
between silence
and nothing,
the signs on the noise
of a threadbare,
buoyant tunnel of air
sing with the voice
of wilderness
plagued by ice,
an incendiary of bliss,
decaying soundlessly
above a cycle of soft jazz.
Let it mingle
with a juniper of joy,
tangling silently,
softly with
broaches of turquoise
and jade,
blanketing the entrance
to a venerated wantonness
of doggerel,
elliptical and enduring.