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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
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  adam fieled



In the pregnant pause
between your mouth's
movement and a gush
of thick metrics, I had
a vision of sun-dappled
red hair that must have
been yours, because we
were in a forest. Since it

was 1918, I did not have
a stun-gun to plummet it
back to the grungy soul-
morass from which it hung—
but the forest’s frail pomp
brought green into mistletoe
so that the kiss came out kid.