The Alchemist Takes a Lover in the Infinite Variety of Fire

The Alchemist Takes a Lover in the Infinite Variety of Fire is a poem written by Bruce Boston. It was first published in the magazine Velocities, Summer 1984. It was reprinted in the 1985 collection Alchemical Texts, in the 1993 anthology Air Fish, edited by Joy Oestreicher and Richard Singer, in the 1995 collection Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems 1970-1995, and in the 2016 collection Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016.