The poets and folksingers
Who weave their parallel universe
Have never heard of you

No naked foot
Hastens upon its wings

No face brightens
As your name is rescued from
Muddled thoughts

Yet you breathe
In and out
Warm nothings

Owing legend everything

Free to slip through windows / bricks
Pines / sleepy witnesses

Saying nothing
Maybe

They dream

Staying nimble
Saving your kisses for now.

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.