The letter “E” lives at the crux of it all,
the confluence of all those words
& phrases that swirl like dervish
between meaning and chaos,
Bert & Ernie.
There are two types of “E”.

Encoded, Enciphered, Escaping
from the prying eyes of meaning.
This “E” is the high-frequency keyed
lock, the secret keeper & rubber duck
of the whispering void.

Enfold, Engulf, Exhale, Explain
the code breakers, betrayers
of the hidden, dragging bits and fragments
of images to the side of meaning where
Bert sorts & paper-clips them by topic.

Once they speak their truth
it will become something else
that grows in every other reader,
eternally.