Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. He has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and The Cream City Review.
Year of the Sea Monkey CLI
Body postpones head.
Today is about late summer
and its soft rumble.
Head will have to wait.
A second head approaches
cautiously, lips
tightening their loops.
This is still about the head.
No one knows the exact
moment that the weather
arrives, but it’s late.
It builds slowly and “is
what it is” as my sweetheart
says when she’s tired
enough and wants to disengage
from a conversation.
Sleep is another season.
Leaves turn color
as do the teenagers
necking under the Chinese
restaurant’s neon Buddha.
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