From: The Yanchep Bonfire Raves The Yanchep Bonfire Raves arose, over a number of years, from a gathering of poets, philosophers, and assorted other goliards, shooting the breeze around bonfires at Yanchep lagoon, north of Perth. The Charlie “Bird” Parker Rave Exiting the High Hat’s clammy bar, Its air thick with a pepper of gossip, Bird wandered crying in a moonstruck night, Blowing Ornithology at the stars, Diamond-eyed, quetzal-plumed, His blood-flecked cough an abraded chord: Miss Heroin hanging from his arm, The fizz of her kiss on his hungry skin, The dented moon red as a heated spoon, Bird hallucinating…