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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Tammy Robacker won the 2015 Keystone Chapbook Prize for her manuscript, R. Her second poetry book, Villain Songs, is now available from ELJ Publications. Tammy published her first collection of poetry, The Vicissitudes, in 2009 (Pearle Publications). Tammy's poetry has appeared in Tinderbox, Menacing Hedge, Chiron Review, The Lake, Duende, So to Speak, Crab Creek Review, Arsenic Lobster, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University, Tammy lives in Oregon.
Bitch
It's a compliment,
my aunt said
when a truck
full of men
drove behind me
to a stop sign
then fuckyeahed
and slapped me
off my bike.
I was twelve.
I learned how
the world pinned
us with crude
names that day.
That I should
listen. I should
laugh along. To
be a women
was to be a dys-
phemism, their
subject, the four-
legged words.
Lost & Found is published by Glass Poetry Press as part of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. This project publishes work that was accepted by journals that ceased publication before the work was released.
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