searching for love and fire in the fragrant circus of a kiss
surveying prehistoric crabgrass in the Lethbridge parking lot
Badlands tricereatops grunt and rejoice in earthy ochre chthonia
battles of bone and beak beneath a slab of cerulean sky
"Searching for love and fire !" shouts the badger-faced snake grabber
he's the skinny one with the lazy eye ogling the ambrosial bosom of a jezebel
searching for love and fire with a blue-tipped safety match blaze
wearing stereo racoon goggles scrawny desperado delerious rabid and cool
genuflecting before the peephole offer oblations to babylon gods
to cure the miracle of baldness in basement suites adorned with owls
occult bonfire in plywood funhouse an inferno of textbooks shrivel
like the awkward advances of the one-armed man who haunts the bingo halls of Flin Flon
In a superlative conspiracy mosquitos invade the beards of intrepid vegan spelunkers
and bent banjo notes coalesce in campfire air
searching like a grandiloquent ogre for the exquisite panacea
by the abandoned swingset with the licorice bush on fire
likea ridiculous and popular friend who shines like cadmium yellow light
her outlaw agenda creates a pattern of intoxicants that twinkle on this page
because you're in love with a nun with a face like Charles Bronson
