Poetry, Week 37: Jenkin Benson

 

if i just type “liminal” one more time then maybe this will all be worth it

 
the limen spaces
and the spaces sill
like thresholdized thede
tilth limiting

your space and its bounds
which izes in’er
lines’n’bankments
unboughtably curbed

cause you care bout lines
meters perilimp’d
limpids midst the mulch
of circumcision

circumferences
of circonfines fringed
like cellulosic
periedgery

the cornua of
our eyelidery
so oblique so slit
borduring métriques

accreting rut of
parapheria
urled brim inverged rim
verse of abuttal

 this marchers theory
ignores surety
a closure and a
bound are tantamount

 

Jenkin Benson is a graduate student, musician, and poet. New Mundo Press published his debut full-length book of poems are we rocking with this? August 2025. Publications and music here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson