Entrenched in brokenness,
soft silence
etching its way
into a jade
intolerance,
a joining of softness
with a granite
pigmentation of sorrow,
of a bucolic
basilica of bronze,
casting shadows
over garish pilgrims
searching the shadows
of an empty nave,
a narthex of emptiness,
he calls in a voice
of urgency
tendered in
joyous reluctance
of a shadowed terror;
he builds a bridge,
a bridge of silence.
Retired educator, Jack e Lorts, has published widely (Arizona Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, English Journal, etc.), online such places as Haggard & Halloo, Locust, verse day, etc. Author of three chapbooks, his recent “The Love Songs of Ephram Pratt” came out from Uttered Chaos Press in 2019.
