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.
Punchbowl
Scales and feathers
float in the punchbowl.
Costumes drag on the floor.
The guests are drunk enough
to stop caring.
I was once a dinosaur.
Now I wipe my clients down
with something that triggers
these memories.
Love bottles half full
of cherry juice
and rain.
For a good time,
they used to call
me.