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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{encounter with sea beast}
  becky peterson


Even though I told you
right in the face

My mind is on the punchline
and I think I know what is true
by how long my eye lingers on something

Regarding your nightmares
about whales swimming downriver

and the grotesquerie
that snakes along the river floor:

I will fight them
and tell them to scram
and then meet you
in a shockingly intimate scenario