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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{your apartment in el cajon}
  amanda oaks


where our romance became historic,
where marrow divided from bone,
vertical blinds slicing our bodies
into cryptic fractions, parts of a whole
coiled in cotton sheets, our eyes
they slept, holding secrets like
trapdoors & if thirty ears could've
heard the sighs that slipped from my
mouth every time your lips split on my skin
or witnessed when your complexion was up
against mine they might have understood why
i was almost three thousand miles away
from home