Two Poems by Dana Trick

 

Xochiquetzal  

So sure this victory is truly yours? 

 

So you believe beauties should belong to you 

For cruel behaviour you enact as holy?  

 

So you think your pruning shears and the scars they bring 

Will be enough to wither me?  

 

So you hope that fertilizer full of sweet shit  

Will be enough to dominate me? 

 

You’ll soon find out 

That the little flowerpot you caged me in 

Will shatter under me. 

 

Scream all curses and damnation at me all you want— 

Your words won’t be enough. 

 

My heart is rainbows of petals roaming freely, 

Kissing those who need it.

 

Xochipilli

  

So this victory is truly yours?  

 

Try to chain me to this minstrel show  

For your gluttonous ego, 

Try to stab me with your jeers and your humours 

To bring me the pain you desire for me— 

As many times as you want, 

But I will always grow from the cracks of your ruins.  

 

You dare call my petals such ugly things  

When you barely control your envy and self-hatred 

With cheap pathetic lies.  

 

All your illusions of strength and power will not kill me— 

So cower before my colours, 

So watch in vain as I bloom again and again.

Dana Trick - A first-generation Mexican-Canadian-American autistic biromantic-demisexual with ADHD, Dana Trick lives in Southern California where it is clearly foolish to wear black every day. Besides writing, she spends/wastes her day by either reading weird books; researching history because she has a history degree; drawing art and comics that she posts on deviantART under Silencedbook9; and watching cartoons, anime, and Youtube videos.

Her work has been published online--Art of Autism, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Kolkata Arts, The Writer Shed, Anvil Tongue Books, confetti, The Writers Club, and The Ugly Writers, Confetti—as well as in print anthologies by The Poets’ Choice and Wingless Dreamer; The Moorpark College Print Review; Other Worldly Women Press’ Behind Closed Doors; Free Spirit’s Historic Tales; Dragoon Soul Press’ Organic Ink Volume 5; The Ravens Quote Press’ Balm 2; Quillkeepers Press’ Inspired and Mythos and Lore and RAW