From the excesses of Day of the Dead to ornate expressions of art to a faux-fancy shower knob, “fancy” can be found anywhere!

That said, there is fancy of a different sort:

A Prick of Fancy

The world I see outside my sill—
the clouds that cover lake and hill,
treetops and vines that seek to fill
every space–both rock and rill,
completing  crevasses until
they’ve rendered empty spaces nil.
These things now serve to fuel my quill.
They are my unguent, band-aid, pill.
They prick my fancy, charge my will.
They level out that long uphill
journey to that final kill
when wan and empty, sore and ill,
I will finally pay life’s bill.

For MVB, Fancy