trickster Just little things, like endless rain,the spilt milk, parcelsleft behind, newly-bought necessitiesdisappearing, a waiter forgetting an orderand not being able to find our wayout of Blenheim. Was it coyote, Bugs Bunny, Loki,Maui, a leprechaun, a fox, a crow,Pippi Longstocking, Puck,or Anansi? Might the trickster have beenmy father being a monkey(his animal sign in the … Continue reading Poetry Shelf Occasional Poems: Kay Mckenzie Cooke’s ‘trickster’