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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{having you come up after so much time}
  lyn lifshin


thinking what it
would be like re-
reading your letter
like a map, I folded
September, then un-
folded it again. I
thought I was
ready but it was
like thunder you
hear on the phone
when you’re talking
to someone where
the storm is. You
know it’s coming,
moving east like
most weather but
you still wake up
startled, dazed.
When it breaks, the
rain on the glass,
the lightning that
makes the room
even darker