Potential Titles: Toys & Games [category]
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somethingdarkerAce:
Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"
Playing faro with no aces - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Ball.
Balloon.
Barbie:
A mass grave of all our Barbies interred in a pyramid - Josh Pearce "Plastic Paradise Awaits" [Strange Horizons 2 Feb. 2025]
Baseball:
Playing baseball with the dead - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"
Flaws stacked like baseball cards - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"
Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"
Baton:
Twirls a baton of broken broomstick - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"
Bicycle/Bike.
Blind-Man's-Bluff/Blind-Man Buff:
A blind-man buff of words avoiding words - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rough accompaniment of blind-man's-buff - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Card.
Carousel.
Cartwheel:
And teaches the urchins to cartwheel - Edryd Bowmer "Skink Song" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Cat's-Cradle:
This strange cat's-cradle to unhitch - Wilhelm Busch "Max and Maurice" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
Checkers/Chequers.
Chess.
Contest.
Cribbage:
All of us playing cribbage on the lawn - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Croquet:
The mice play their games of croquet - Mary Jo Bang "In the Quieter Aftermath"
Deuce:
Turns and plays the deuce with Spring - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: April"
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"
Dice.
Doll.
Doll House:
In this doll's house lived together - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Paced their dollhouse walls - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
In whose adorable doll's house nothing was ever broken - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"
Domino.
Faro:
Playing faro with no aces - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
Led her through ferry boats and Ferris wheels - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"
Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"
Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"
Follow-the-Leader/Follow-My-Leader:
Follow-my-leader down the seam - Robert Graves "The Patchwork Bonnet"
Football:
And pile them high like football fiends - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"
Four-Flush:
Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Freeze Tag: See Tag.
Frisbee:
Throw my voice like a Frisbee - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"
Gamble.
Game.
Games - Mental [category].
Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Hide-and-Seek.
Hopscotch:
A dynamic rendition of the hospscotched [sic] past - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"
Hopscotch squares painted new in the street - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
Ice Skates:
My mind is loose on ice skates - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"
Jack:
In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
Jack-in-the-Box:
Chaos plays Jack-in-the-Box - Dom "Number Cruncher: Here's a Crowd"
Jackstraws:
And fall like jackstraws - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Stirred the lock of jack-straw needle-ice - Herman Melville "Berg (A Dream)"
Jigsaw.
Jump Rope:
The jump ropes' portentous looming - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
Kaleidoscope.
Kings of various suits:
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Kite.
Leap Frog:
An entire career built upon leapfrogging elephants - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Play at leap frog with the grass - Alexander Posey "The Idle Breeze"
Magic 8-Ball:
Our Magic 8-Ball fortune - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"
Make-Believe.
Marble/Marbled/Marbles.
Marionette:
Defanged marionette, flattened clown - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
Waltzing with your marionettes - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Meccano:
In this swirling meccano of empires and loves - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Merry-Go-Round:
A small child trapped on a merry-go-round - Tim Earley "Vacation Bible School"
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"
Monkey Bars:
Upside-down on the monkey bars - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Musical Chairs:
An endless game of musical chairs - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
Paper Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
Westward paper airplane and origami crane poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
A silken basket catching our paper airplanes - Bryce A. Taylor "Cartilage"
Send letters back and forth by paper airplane - Evan Williams "Yours, Stalagmite"
Paper Doll:
The violent side of paper dolls - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"
Pastime:
Life but a coin to be staked in the pastime - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Pawn.
Peek-a-boo:
In political games of specters' peek-a-boo - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Pinata:
The dandelion turns into a pinata - John McCarthy "Planting"
Pinball:
Each pink ping in your pinball-mouth - Benjamin Garcia "Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese"
Pinwheel.
Play.
Plaything.
Poker: See Poke.
Puppet.
Puzzle.
Queen cards of specific suits:
While the Queen of Diamonds reshuffled the deck - John Trudell "God Help and Breed You All"
I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"
Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Ragdoll:
In the ragdoll physics of this world - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"
Small ragdoll figures toppling over and over - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
A rag-doll wherein to thrust the casual pin - Robert Graves "The Sewing Basket"
Rocking Horse:
The rocking horse dreams of riding the carousel - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Roller Skate:
Rushing by on roller skates - Dorothy Keeley Aldis "Spring"
roller skate down the new sidewalk - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."
Roulette:
Playing roulette with my breath - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"
Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"
Sandcastle:
The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Skate.
Skateboard:
A cowboy reincarnated as a skateboarder - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
Sled:
Dolls, and tops, and sleds, and balls - Sydney Dayre "A Letter to Mother Nature" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
A sled rushes down a slope in his dreams - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"
Snow Globe:
When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Smash a snow globe in a parking lot - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"
Solitaire:
When I am playing more than solitaire - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Sports & Athletics [category].
Stilts:
An elaboration of stalk and stilts - Janet Kauffman "An Elaboration of Stalk"
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
Swing.
Swing Set:
A forgotten swing set submerged in this sea - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
Tag.
Toy.
Trampoline:
The trampolined floor of a windowless room - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
Trapeze:
Trapeze wires below the cloud cover - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Rocked like a trapeze of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Trapezes that our passion frenzies - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Tug of War:
From this gentle tug of war - David Hornibrook "Tides"
The deadly tug of war at length must limits find - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
A perpetual tug of war - Monica de la Torre "Equivalent"
Video Game:
still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Whirligig:
The whirligig of dozens - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"
Wild Card:
And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"
Playing faro with no aces - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Ball.
Balloon.
Barbie:
A mass grave of all our Barbies interred in a pyramid - Josh Pearce "Plastic Paradise Awaits" [Strange Horizons 2 Feb. 2025]
Baseball:
Playing baseball with the dead - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"
Flaws stacked like baseball cards - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"
Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"
Baton:
Twirls a baton of broken broomstick - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"
Bicycle/Bike.
Blind-Man's-Bluff/Blind-Man Buff:
A blind-man buff of words avoiding words - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rough accompaniment of blind-man's-buff - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Card.
Carousel.
Cartwheel:
And teaches the urchins to cartwheel - Edryd Bowmer "Skink Song" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Cat's-Cradle:
This strange cat's-cradle to unhitch - Wilhelm Busch "Max and Maurice" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
Checkers/Chequers.
Chess.
Contest.
Cribbage:
All of us playing cribbage on the lawn - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Croquet:
The mice play their games of croquet - Mary Jo Bang "In the Quieter Aftermath"
Deuce:
Turns and plays the deuce with Spring - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: April"
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"
Dice.
Doll.
Doll House:
In this doll's house lived together - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Paced their dollhouse walls - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
In whose adorable doll's house nothing was ever broken - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"
Domino.
Faro:
Playing faro with no aces - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
Led her through ferry boats and Ferris wheels - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"
Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"
Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"
Follow-the-Leader/Follow-My-Leader:
Follow-my-leader down the seam - Robert Graves "The Patchwork Bonnet"
Football:
And pile them high like football fiends - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"
Four-Flush:
Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Freeze Tag: See Tag.
Frisbee:
Throw my voice like a Frisbee - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"
Gamble.
Game.
Games - Mental [category].
Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Hide-and-Seek.
Hopscotch:
A dynamic rendition of the hospscotched [sic] past - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"
Hopscotch squares painted new in the street - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
Ice Skates:
My mind is loose on ice skates - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"
Jack:
In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
Jack-in-the-Box:
Chaos plays Jack-in-the-Box - Dom "Number Cruncher: Here's a Crowd"
Jackstraws:
And fall like jackstraws - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Stirred the lock of jack-straw needle-ice - Herman Melville "Berg (A Dream)"
Jigsaw.
Jump Rope:
The jump ropes' portentous looming - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
Kaleidoscope.
Kings of various suits:
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Kite.
Leap Frog:
An entire career built upon leapfrogging elephants - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Play at leap frog with the grass - Alexander Posey "The Idle Breeze"
Magic 8-Ball:
Our Magic 8-Ball fortune - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"
Make-Believe.
Marble/Marbled/Marbles.
Marionette:
Defanged marionette, flattened clown - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
Waltzing with your marionettes - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Meccano:
In this swirling meccano of empires and loves - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Merry-Go-Round:
A small child trapped on a merry-go-round - Tim Earley "Vacation Bible School"
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"
Monkey Bars:
Upside-down on the monkey bars - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Musical Chairs:
An endless game of musical chairs - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
Paper Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
Westward paper airplane and origami crane poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
A silken basket catching our paper airplanes - Bryce A. Taylor "Cartilage"
Send letters back and forth by paper airplane - Evan Williams "Yours, Stalagmite"
Paper Doll:
The violent side of paper dolls - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"
Pastime:
Life but a coin to be staked in the pastime - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Pawn.
Peek-a-boo:
In political games of specters' peek-a-boo - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Pinata:
The dandelion turns into a pinata - John McCarthy "Planting"
Pinball:
Each pink ping in your pinball-mouth - Benjamin Garcia "Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese"
Pinwheel.
Play.
Plaything.
Poker: See Poke.
Puppet.
Puzzle.
Queen cards of specific suits:
While the Queen of Diamonds reshuffled the deck - John Trudell "God Help and Breed You All"
I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"
Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Ragdoll:
In the ragdoll physics of this world - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"
Small ragdoll figures toppling over and over - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
A rag-doll wherein to thrust the casual pin - Robert Graves "The Sewing Basket"
Rocking Horse:
The rocking horse dreams of riding the carousel - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Roller Skate:
Rushing by on roller skates - Dorothy Keeley Aldis "Spring"
roller skate down the new sidewalk - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."
Roulette:
Playing roulette with my breath - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"
Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"
Sandcastle:
The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Skate.
Skateboard:
A cowboy reincarnated as a skateboarder - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
Sled:
Dolls, and tops, and sleds, and balls - Sydney Dayre "A Letter to Mother Nature" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
A sled rushes down a slope in his dreams - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"
Snow Globe:
When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Smash a snow globe in a parking lot - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"
Solitaire:
When I am playing more than solitaire - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Sports & Athletics [category].
Stilts:
An elaboration of stalk and stilts - Janet Kauffman "An Elaboration of Stalk"
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
Swing.
Swing Set:
A forgotten swing set submerged in this sea - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
Tag.
Toy.
Trampoline:
The trampolined floor of a windowless room - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
Trapeze:
Trapeze wires below the cloud cover - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Rocked like a trapeze of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Trapezes that our passion frenzies - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Tug of War:
From this gentle tug of war - David Hornibrook "Tides"
The deadly tug of war at length must limits find - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
A perpetual tug of war - Monica de la Torre "Equivalent"
Video Game:
still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Whirligig:
The whirligig of dozens - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"
Wild Card:
And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
