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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{scatter shot in the dark on the church steps}
  kelsey bowe


the night I was first initiated,
snow was falling , and the sky
was that lavender color (lavender grey like that first day grey shirt).
I saw static vision
and my neck stretched craned
past my own white coat,
and hair.

only the air (gestating electricity)
saw a stone-pool future full
of shared bowls of spaghetti,
sprinting out the back stone gate, and
eating mock apples on the Church steps.

the second time,
ashes stained my feet,
dancing
in my ripe knowledge of the present,
cradled between those same
three
apple trees (jubilant despite hose water,)



the third rite
was marked only by acoustic guitar sympathy
and lawn chairs.