Barred borders form erosion zones, discrete 

estates complete but porous. Subsequent 

perimeters contract to craft pockets 

of hollow incantation, mutations 

of exhaled grace notes, incomprehension 

within syntax meant to cloak like smuggling 

rings. Armor—archaic clay— propagates 

the volcanic disconnect disdaining 

elastic slack snuggling too close, not for 

shelter but paltry future’s subterfuge.