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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{caveat}
  aleah sato


I am close to slipping up.
No longer drunk, music is to blame.
Where a hard blade pushes the earth,
I become soft to rumours.
I don't want to believe that sleep
can unravel, or how faith
is an equally tricky addiction.
I see the curve of land and taste
your taste: lips of autumn
and every small desire you held.
I make myself open, raise lights
so that with you I always choose
the hard bargain. I am close now.
Say my name. Tell me it is nothing.