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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{gala & salvadore}
  pj nights


she started a story
she was sure she could finish
one of delirious phenomena
and a deep fishing hole

she wore a jacquard coat
and a white top hat
he was in the kitchen
stirring up a borscht

under puffs of cotton
blackening into thunder
clouds—after red beets,
a morning’s tortuous toilette

where he ripped a tail of sheeting
artfully cut at the corner—
cut higher to show a black
high rise of hair, and higher

to show a nipple, blacker
than lamp black, blacker than
the black of last nights’ dream
where he threw her

into the sea    faire crever
she might expire from the heat
both of them lobsters in the pot
who rise like Lazarus

semi-erect against
an immense lyre    william tell
shoots sea urchins from
our heads      watches melting