What is a syntax in the short story, Marigolds?

Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. An example of syntax found in the short-story, Marigolds, is as follows...

When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust—the brown, crumbly dust of late summer—arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.