Poems by Ms. Trick, by newest first

• Eliza Goes to London at 6

  by Ms. Trick 21 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 4 7:55 PM 2007
• Selections from ‘The Morphology Of The Folktale’

  4. The villain seizes the daylight. This occurs only once. (165) Parents launch a small boat, carrying their sleeping son, into the sea.

  by Ms. Trick 68 lines, on Aug 16 8:14 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• Grace

  The world ticks by like a bomb, like a bird stumbling breathless, sometimes wingless.

  by Ms. Trick 40 lines, on Aug 16 8:10 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Keeping Myself in Check

  The sunlight leaves sheet music against my closed eyelids / and songs trickle through and waltz out of me.

  by Ms. Trick 22 lines, on Jun 7 9:01 PM 2007. In Society
• Tea Season

  / / Unremembered is the fading warmth / of thousands of hands brushing, pressing / the leaves that pant in blots of sunshine / and cool when the wind huffs balloons of moonlight / across the fields. / / The

  by Ms. Trick 31 lines, 6 comments, on May 12 4:39 PM 2007
• High

  / / We are drugged. / The sidewalks ribbon out and arch up to become veins. / Another day in hero kingdom. / / We swipe our fingers through the lazy smoke and / write out fiction about plastic skeletons. /

  by Ms. Trick 36 lines, on May 6 9:11 PM 2007
• Arms in the Spray

  by Ms. Trick 22 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 12 9:52 PM 2007
• ab ovo

  by Ms. Trick 12 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 4 9:55 PM 2007
• Attempts

  by Ms. Trick 35 lines, on Mar 4 9:38 PM 2007
• No One Door

  by Ms. Trick 8 lines, on Feb 4 8:21 PM 2007
• In the Cold

  by Ms. Trick 14 lines, on Jan 26 7:45 AM 2007. In Personal, Love, Hope
• Star Stealing Girl (or 153 / The Star-Money)

  by Ms. Trick 18 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 26 7:41 AM 2007. In Fantasy, Love, Life, Spiritual
• What I wrote on The Wobbly Barn’s wine list:

  by Ms. Trick 23 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 27 8:58 PM 2006
• Mad Hatter, Small under hat, Shoulders

  by Ms. Trick 34 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 26 9:44 PM 2006. In Other
• The Ratio of Freckles to Stars

  by Ms. Trick 21 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 15 8:57 PM 2006
• p e r i s c o p e

  heels graze bark
  and we windmill for balance

  by Ms. Trick 13 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 9 7:27 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Society, Dark
• Luck

  The horseshoes slide off our wrists

  by Ms. Trick 15 lines, on Feb 9 7:25 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Society, Dark
• With Bells On

  space lilies are a synonym for ‘hello'

  by Ms. Trick 25 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 22 9:08 PM 2006. In Personal, Spiritual
• The Snake and The Spoon

  Our tongues curl on the scent
  of gold.

  by Ms. Trick 18 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 21 4:24 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Society, Dark
• Kingdom

  the blue dawn curls around the tips of the ravens
  and we’re in a balloon

  by Ms. Trick 21 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 20 10:15 PM 2006. In Weird, Spiritual
• Underwater Light

  the cold underwater lights
  catch in her eyes

  by Ms. Trick 19 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 17 6:29 PM 2006. In Sad, Personal, Other
• The Gorgon

  The moon is like a woman in a towel
  and she grins through the window.

  by Ms. Trick 37 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 8 3:44 PM 2006. In Other
• Saving Us

  We craft the roles we play,
  weave around the skeletons of cars on the highway.

  by Ms. Trick 39 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 2 11:51 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Dark, Hope
• The Fortune Teller’s Hands

  the juggler’s numb fingers reroute the balls

  by Ms. Trick 78 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 13 9:56 PM 2005. In Spiritual, Society, Nature
• Unhidden

  the brown spiders make their cobwebs gleam

  by Ms. Trick 23 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 4 9:10 PM 2005. In Spiritual, Society, Other
• Le Retour

  Les feuilles exubérantes inclinent le menton de la brise à faire face au soleil.

  by Ms. Trick 20 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 15 9:07 PM 2005. In Spiritual, Other, Nature
• UnHallowe'en

  “Daydreaming doesn’t become you. Help your uncles tend the jack-o-lanterns if you have nothing to do.”

  by Ms. Trick 23 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 6 2:02 PM 2005. In Fantasy, Weird, Other
• Exile

  Angels don't handle banishment to Earth very well.

  by Ms. Trick 23 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 6 1:25 PM 2005. In Fantasy, Weird, Dark
• Messes

  dysfunctional for the world’s ease

  by Ms. Trick 45 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 6 12:38 PM 2005. In Personal, Spiritual, Other
• Playing Human

  Not being human is impossible.
  And beyond wishes, humans are not their stories.

  by Ms. Trick 40 lines, on Nov 6 11:34 AM 2005. In Spiritual, Society, Hope
• how to steal a cherry

  Spider saddles up, top hat tilted,
  photographs slipped up his sleeves.

  by Ms. Trick 53 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 3 8:47 PM 2005. In Weird, Love, Contemporary
• Condensing

  we should listen to the writing on the asphalt
  if we’re ever going to find

  by Ms. Trick 17 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 29 3:09 PM 2005. In Other, Hope, Contemporary
• Salvage

  The paper moon sleeps

  by Ms. Trick 41 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 22 6:06 PM 2005. In Weird, Spiritual
• Undress

  I think it's about waiting for something, knowing its close.

  by Ms. Trick 26 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 15 12:04 PM 2005. In Love, Hope
• Fair

  as though to say, you’re still
  here, we’re still here, us, together

  by Ms. Trick 22 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 10 8:25 PM 2005. In Other, Love, Hope

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