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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{rest stop}
  evelyn lauer


—Jackson, Mississippi On the curb, a glass bottle
once touched by someone’s lips,
lips wrapped around that broken
bottle, brown bits of a beer

left on the side of the road
now like amber jewels,
and a man behind two trees,
holding onto a fence,

thinking no one can see him,
as he relieves himself
among purple wild flowers
and the sound of crickets.