magnetized,
the room froze,
outside the door,
Pony Girl's gold pocket
watch stopped on a chain
of events, traveling ministry,
troubadours and minstrel wagons
setting up revival tents, the whiskey
laced with opium unbeknownst to The
Sundance Wives, hallucinations, wild
boars delivered a plate of tusk, credence,
the hard truth of one of Madam Antonella's
finest whores,

sun going
down before
dusk just as it
does nightly, gold
does not ordinarily
magnetize, only slightly
when in a magnetic field
flowing with moving charges,
current-carrying copper wire,

electrons prophetic
smoking out the worm
in the cornhusk, preacher
in disguise, black cloak and
white collar that he fictitiously
dons,

frozen compass
needle, A.J. assumes
the direction she will be
laying, Sage down on her
knees and it's not for praying,

Blaze holding
the brass door
knob when it came
off in her hand, skeleton
key dropped to the wooden
floor planks, no hallucination,
spirits raising hell down below
under the saloon floor, where The
Sundance Wives placer claim maps
invocation, Pussy the smell, washed
two days ago in Clearwater creek, raw,
bloodshot eyes water, strong as a wild
onion peel, curl your tongue,

roulette wheel
frozen on blazing
red 27, faro tables
bust the dealers banks,
birthday numbers, hit on
14, busted on 26 and 23,
the midwife's prophetic calling,

it thunders,
rain falling,
lightning strikes
Pony Girl's magnetized
suspenders, Ace tucked up
her sleeve, ricochets the electric
current burning a jagged Cross hole
in the door exposing preacher in bed
fucking the whore, wrong door,

Rosicrucian, 
bible on the bullet
pock-marked table,
wild boar eating from
the bucket of coal, black,
Night of the Foal another
century, livery's stable, we
take delivery, will the Sundance
Wives all four go down...........
in history? Who is this man John
Fogerty?

Copyright 10/12/2009 Ms. Sage Sweetwater firebrand lesbian novelist