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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{spent time (columbus)}
  ryan dilbert



On Columbus Day, I paint a gold X in the sand, tuck away in some bush and watch.

It’s almost always a thin woman in her late 20’s who saunters up, shovel in hand,
a low cut paisley dress, internet-savvy

I watch the way she bends and wonder if that’s a motion I’d grow tired of, I picture her waking up
and with just my eyes I can steal the sunshine from her bones.