Cherry Cola LXV

Glen armstrong

This world doesn’t end; it just goes
more and more out of
focus

until it’s a fog and, then,
another world.
Animals

that once sat still for odd treats
dart back and forth 
attempting

to shake this world from their fur.
This world takes 
us

for unfinished.

We are fingernails, salamanders, fish, 
inaudible whispers, eggs, and
less. 

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 current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review.