Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three recent chapbooks: Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.) His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit and Cloudbank.
Between the Buttons
Ask the calypso singer.
Ask the boy with a booger
on his sleeve.
All shirts are equal parts
theory and praxis.
Doll Variations
The deep red sequin
on the doll’s plastic belly
works as either a ruby
or a scab.
Rust
Just hypnosis that metal undergoes.