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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{now you've spent a whole month in the ground}
  lyn lifshin


past muscle memory.
In ballet some way
tendons and sinews
move are like a
computer whose
files won’t erase.
Phantom pain, an
old story. But what
of the tissues that
connected to what
was gone, a leg
exploding across a
mine field, there
and not there like
a lover who says its
not you and dissolves.
With you, I was like
a Siamese twin who
survives the other
but never heals, burns,
stays raw where the
hearts and lungs
connected