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profit.   Feb 19, 2013 @ 11:55 am 24 notes  Megan Kaminski on
“My syntax shift  My syntax shift  My presence on the winter
boat contradicted all prescience on the matter of drowning far
into the Atlantic.  Further west near the Hudson, autumnal
blankets whisper over mountains and through resurrectionless
forests.  Imagine flying from boats to biplanes, sprinkling dust
and dawn along the way.  The undoing of summer made my syntax
shift and examine your listing out center the bay.  Somewhere
along the journey,     your boat drifted away, off to a triangle
or under a bridge.  Its casing stressed beyond regulation, and
its seaworthiness questionable, at the very least.  In damask-
lined parlors I marvel at the congenital daybreak, compute ratio
of wave to tree.   "My syntax shift" is both at the heart
of Desiring Map and an outlier in the book. It is the only poem
that uses the sentence as unit of composition, hence its
title—so, in that way it certai