Renée Tambeau is a Hamtramck actress, poet, and painter. She received her BFA and MA from Wayne State University. She has performed her poetry throughout the U.S. and Canada and her work has been heard on WDET, WXYT, WCBN, WDTR, and WHFR. She has been published in several magazines and journals. She was a founding member of the poetry/music groups, Spoke and the FlowPoets. Her artwork has been shown at various galleries and venues in the Metro-Detroit area. As an actress, she was an original member of Ron Allen’s Thick Knot Rhythm Ensemble and P.O.W. (Pissed Off Wimmin) alternative theatre organizations.

The kids on the block
love everything dirty
play in the alley
are discarded themselves
scream out "uncle" when
they want to be released.

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Too many for one house,
they seem to fall out the windows.
They land on faded plastic tricycles.
The wheels run over doll parts,
scattering the pieces:
the sidewalk littered with bodies.

On sunny winter days
when the glow on white
is blinding,
when crispness bleeds a nose,
there is the song of the hearty—
chirping on a skeleton/
wings across the sky.
Proves a puddle
same as a pond
in such ways.

He touches her leg
and says,
"home".