This is the story of joy and color.
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The mystery girl’s heart
where shines a strange
history,
where tears stain latex.
–
The blurb on the back promises:
so real that you’ll feel
it on your skin.
It tells the truth more often
than you’d think.
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She is completely eyes and hands.
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While others speak in tongues
at the riverfront,
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their divine proclamations
peppered with otherworldly
curses,
–
she looks at the moon
and we all forget
–
the seemingly endless moons
leading up to this moment.
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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, Picaroon Poetry and Cream City Review.
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