La Sirena by Alarie Tennille

La Sirena, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada), 2016.

La Sirena

She knows
1000 ways to seduce.
Fluttering
Aegean blue lids,
pursing
maraschino taste-me lips ­–
xx!
 
She sweeps other women
into the background, pulls
men into her orbit.
We’ve seen her enough
to know the regrets
she never takes with her.

Alarie Tennille

Alarie Tennille was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. She became fascinated by fine art at an early age, even though she had to go to the World Book Encyclopedia to find it. Today she visits museums everywhere she travels and spends time at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, where her husband is a volunteer guide. Alarie’s poetry book, Running Counterclockwise, contains many ekphrastic poems. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.