Tammy Robacker

Tammy Robacker is a poet, journalist and writer living in Tacoma, WA. Her poetry has appeared in literary arts journals such as Plazm, Word Salad, Floating Bridge Review, In Tahoma's Shadow and the Allegheny Review. Currently, she is publishing her first collection of poetry, titled: The Vicissitudes (click here to order), thanks to generous funding by the TAIP artist grant from the City of Tacoma and the Tacoma Arts Commission. Ms. Robacker runs her own freelance writing and marketing communications company, Pearle Publications, LLC. She volunteers her time to non-profit literary organizations by serving as Secretary of the Board to Puget Sound Poetry Connection and Secretary of the Board to Exquisite Disarray Publishing. Contact Tammy.

Poems:

☆ I Want This Poem To Be
☆ I Want to Marry the Sheriff of Mayberry
☆ On the Bureau, Bullets

Featured Poem:
I Want This Poem To Be

I want this poem to be
found by you
like its been folded
so carefully in form
it is origami. A pointy
pure white dove
flown straight for you.

I want this poem to be
discovered by you
like it always existed.
But others just missed it.
Like it was winking
up in the milky way
for so long, for utter eons
even if the whole atmosphere
of it is already burned out
by the time it reaches you
it will still light up the world.

I want this poem to be
bloomed by you
like a fresh-born lily.
Like a stargazer waits bud-shut
in the hush hours of morning.
But it chooses now to open.
Like the petals knew all along
when and how to flourish. Since
your hand finally holds it.

- Tammy Robacker