January 2023
Jack e Lorts
jlorts1940@gmail.com
Bio Note: At 81 & 82, my wife & I are fully vaccinated, but still worried about COVID. I've had my most recent collection of poems rejected five times in the last last couple months. You might check out my poem "How can you lose a granddaughter?" which was in Rattle Poets Respond October 11, 20222. I continue to find such great poems here in Verse Virtual. Keep up the great work.

Ephram Pratt Considers What Time Brings About

Eventually everything happens
whether you realize

it or not. Not only
to you and to me,

but to the loneliest frog
in the forest,

creeping silently into
the days blown

away by thunder
and the sound of 

ether escaping from
the tiniest corpuscles 

found in the atmosphere
of Mars, or even 

in the eye lash of
a brontosaurus 

dying a billion years ago,
aghast at what 

each incoming second
brought or will bring about.
©2023 Jack e Lorts
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