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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{plea of the guilty}
  ernest williamson III


between the branding
of the wondrous lace
pitted in the bosom of Aunt Lana
settled in the twitching left hazel eye of Grandma
Lee I see a mirage of mirrors casting casts for
shows with no humor holding fast to banter from weak
minds spittle from strong winds heralding minutiae
for gold silver and bronze people of the world shed
blood below the angelic sway left to right through
drifting white clouds coasting and judging with no
recollection of my unique recording of supernal
squeals from squealing doldrums rapt in broken logic
beneath the greenery and seeping further into the
Summer of no relent