Two Poems
Steve Armstrong
Industry Clout
Rings around the envelope suggest
Scaling motions between heirlooms.
In our view, orbits are deployed
Against pressure to uphold the phone.
Slips of paper now and in the
Upcoming species are minting terms.
Nonetheless, a margin of conclaves
Appears available as light upholds
Native resiliencies and cushions the
Catalog improvement along the glue.
Verticals run out of factors to tree
The swings. We control and lift
The pleasure of corners, reverting
Toward underlying fundamentals over
The falls to concede that rolling is
Accurate enough for our similarities.
Allegiance
They still get edges inside, in behind and
Under way to the atmosphere. Once goals
Calmly get around the five consecutive
Presses, true value calls us in to look tough
Beyond a larger frame of citations promoting
Reverence for the dimensions we are inclined
To process on the love of the path. Upstairs
Cannot contain the substitute for percussion
During proxies for the advantage of a method.
We wait little of the future to shake up music.
It is a fair career, ever speaking to hear so little.
I could not be seen behind or side to side. A
Quicker foot bargains with tears and words run
Carefully down the aisle, pacing with a flood near
A point of expiration. Idleness trickles by numbers,
Misgiving at the end of imagination. A proper
Exhibit paddles against the wind. Work should
So incline in front of the taps, on to the question.
Steve Armstrong is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara. His poems have appeared in Fixator Press, ballast, Subliminal Surgery, and Scud.