The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: "Trick Rider" by Jen Tynes

In a time of crisis the body has to be careful not to step too far out into the road.

When a participant needs to uncouple, they go down to Memphis for a little while.

Maybe when the body comes back she’ll be more synchronized. When I step out of

my mark and into hers, I cannot expand on the glamour. Don’t misunderstand me;

she’s a whole village. She’s a whole village don’t misunderstand me.

This selection comes from Jen Tynes’ poetry collection Trick Rider, available now from Trembling Pillow Press. Purchase your copy here.

Jen Tynes is the founding editor of Horse Less Press. She is the
author of four full-length books of poetry–Hunter Monies (Black
Radish Books), Trick Rider (Trembling Pillow Press), Heron/Girlfriend
(Coconut Books), and The End Of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press), and
the author or co-author of eight chapbooks. She teaches writing and
lives in Grand Rapids.

Jane Huffman is a current MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a staff eDior for Sundress Publications. Her poetry is featured or forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Moon City Review, Radar Poetry, PHANTOM, Word Riot, The This Magazine, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere in print and online. She lives in Iowa City, where she teaches literature in the University of Iowa English Department and serves on the poetry staff of The Iowa Review.