ADHERING TO THE SYNDICATE A REAL DAUGHTER

all ills went ice-cold 

in the oval 

mouth fauceting birds  

ontic versions of the babble 

apparatus the breath 

through the bell 

of the open 

quotient oral 

members weather-

ing occlusion want-

ing nothing less than 

ethereal body mod 

and this merely one 

in a predictable sequence 

of transactions sick 

unto softness unto death 

by prepositions it pains 

the sheath to undo 

the corporeal via ritual 

deposits and epistolary 

moths electing semi-

tones to perforate 

the esophageal wraith  

wardrobed with 

frequencies retroflex  

drawn into the rot 

vessel

EMBOUCHURE STUDY FOR GEOGRAPHIC MAWS OR DEMIURGIC LESIONS

the inability 

to not become 

everything in the aural 

aggregate so herbal 

in dissolution so violet 

in withholding 

having forgiven 

the gradient its stasis  

having given it for 

grain to a sister 

a soma fear to see you 

through the gray 

catalysis in love 

with the it pronoun  

a fabric ambient 

with nausea 

and the contagion 

of that nausea 

and the fabric 

of that contagion  

it’s happening to 

every body that leans 

onerous

JANUS HEAD FOR DUAL PERVERSION AND ASEMIC EXCESS

looking for 

trouble 

in the folds 

of trans-

glottic space 

like going down 

on a moon-

beam with 

cinematic 

respiration  

assuming 

an ambient 

disposition  

for mass 

pleasantries 

or false 

phonemes  

given the 

prescription 

to vacillate 

in the room 

of a mood  

soft with 

a fungal logic 

THE WINTER WILL CHEW ON IT

like 

a 

nemesis 

with 

bleeding 

teeth

the 

winter 

will 

dis-

locate 

its 

jaw 

to 

fit 

it 

all 

inside

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