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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{quickly passing}
  luc simonic


and like last night the lighting
is mixed and the animals hang helpless
in owl grasp, that last bit
of alive - flown away, 3am shrieking.

we wonder about what’s to become
of our pets, and make decisions
about it. folks who have farms and ranches
wonder about all their animals – it's rough,

I hear. oh posh - eventually
there's only one of us left.
i imagined shooting my cat
after that. merely a flash.