Whispers and Echoes

His heart was a strange tree

that failed to center

the city

 

though it was right there,

as central as a flag

or a statue

 

of Davy Crockett.

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