Sexiness at this age
is a heavy log thrown
upon the big screen. It’s
digital ignition. Radiant
specter of desire. Bodies
like menu tabs. Click
me up here. Click
you down there.
Seduction reads
in LCD. Bedroom eye
of the dying ember.
Passion, an element
continuously looping
limbs to unmade sheets.
We are all yearning
furnaces. Wrapped hearts
around crossed moods
and bad knees. Love,
a four-cornered word.
A billion orange pixels
burning up HD flames.
Tammy Robacker won the 2015 Keystone Chapbook Prize for her manuscript, R. Her poetry book Villain Songs is forthcoming with ELJ Publications in 2016. Tammy published her first collection of poetry, The Vicissitudes, in 2009 (Pearle Publications). Tammy's poetry appears in Arsenic Lobster, Menacing Hedge, Chiron Review, VoiceCatcher, Duende, So to Speak, Crab Creek Review, WomenArts, 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. Visit www.tammyrobacker.com.
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