There Was No End to Expand To

From these edges torn a fibrous fissure froms and froths.

Edges fraught with peripheral degeneration, a fringy pith skirting the threshold. 

Will the violet fog scatter a spectral withness. 

Will obsidian smoke fill the fractures. 

Will the hovering monochrome suture feral scraps into a horizon.

To fabricate intimacy at elsewhere’s edge, the periphery assembles a medial expanse, a vertical pupil beholding beyond.

A field grows within a field, effecting a contrapuntal fringe and verge. 

Threshold ridden with fog and smoke.

Expanse fraught with forest obscure.

Boundary opaque with to and from.

The forest is turned on its head.

The field is feral with severance.

The periphery is ill with boundary.

Elijah Guerra is the author of the chapbook Feral Ecology (Bottlecap Press 2024). Their first full-length poetry book, Holograms in the Field, won the inaugural Gasher Book Award and will be published in Spring 2026.