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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{dear bear}
  diana adams


Tonight’s thoughts breathe

green. Sleep-locked in black satin

you do dances that happen

only in tranceland. Fictional affairs,

foreign guns, each enervated limb

dumbed, so close to being

a corpse the knife I hold

over your head is just an offbeat

frequency, a cell-phone on speed dial

to Persephone. Lay, wait for bells,

let salmon run their river morgue.