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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{ars poetica}
  paul adrian mabelis


The ambient chill of the balustrade, the strange
bedfellows we made brag about our beauty
or the moods we were in when rage-ridden
heaven condemned us.

Oh safe-haven for what taxes us off-shore.          Poetry
reserve your requirements for when I am
more emergent, though urgent care says otherwise

as the phoenix rise and I forget where I am
momentarily.

Ashes strewn all about like words -
like worlds
carefully placed between

birth and death.


Refreshing.