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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{the stone road}
  paul adrian mabelis



Tetrahedron granite shoals.

A rough, rhythmically slow

way of regurgitating gravel,


the compartmentalized landscape,

a linear texture of terrapins in a terrarium,

gluttonous tethered tyrants lay taunted


by a watchdog – thirsty for foliage

fat and protected, quick friction –

busy in the formation of a path or byway,


holy lodges on the wayside measuring magnetometers

the thermometry of our theocratic geothermic bleeding

insides, just as shelled, just as stoically ruffian

suffragette, rinsed wine colored vines, veins

and rain, falling - fretting - folding over

the regrets of any torn apart part of terra,


fabric, dome depleted of a diametrical roof

tear in the static of the sunlight laying still,

the near silent shrill of the leaf left naked


without the branch, the undiscovered map,

therapeutic wherabouts of all transcending theories,

human auras and aloe vera’s, guantanamera,


quantum veiled sclera, waves of rare conspiracies

and collective worries, all blurry interpretations

of the thermodynamic purring of time

intermittent haze and a narrow trail

blazing through the hillside.