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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{why areograms are always blue}
  lyn lifshin


Because of the distance to you.
Because the wind fades,
dries out the verbs
until the background they’ve
leaned against blends
with the sky.
The blue reflects your eyes.
No, that’s a lie, I don’t
remember them, only the
feeling in my hands, some
thing longing, aching the
blue in my veins a fast
blue burning barriers