Here’s a fresh moon rock for sale

it’s original, someone worked hard

to obtain it and will freely provide,

its papers, its pedigree—if you will—

as well as a brief, but striking video.

I can get it for you cheap and easy,

plus, I’ve got feathers from the wing

of an angel, tulip bulbs from the Garden

ofEden, I have the only thought plucked

from the brow, below the auburn tresses,

from within the alabaster skin of the only

Virgin Mary. I can post it on eBay, I can

e-mail you, Facebook you, can like you,

tweet you, can text you, so tell me what

you want, I will deliver, I always do, even

precious sunbeams, either distilled

or fermented, in exquisite jars. I’ll sell you

anything, I’ve got joy for sale, so much joy.

*First published by Visions International, #85, Fall 2011

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Helen Wickes lives in Oakland, California, and worked for many years as a psychotherapist. In 2002 she received an M.F.A. from Bennington College. Her first book of poems, In Search of Landscape, was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her poems can be read and heard online at From The Fishouse. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI Online, Atlanta Review, Confrontation, Eclipse, Evansville Review, RiverSedge, Sanskrit, South Dakota Review, Stand, Runes, ZYZZYVA, Zone 3, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Collagist, Natural Bridge, Santa Clara Review, Limestone, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Bryant Literary Review, Eclectica, Ellipsis, Southwestern American Literature, Soundings East, Verdad, The Coe Review, Crucible, The Jabberwock Review, Kaleidoscope, Pleiades, PMS poemmemoirstory, SLAB, The Griffin, Salamander, Epicenter, Barnstorm, Poetry Flash, In the Grove, CQ, CSPS, Freshwater, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Softblow, 5 AM, the Bennington Review, and the anthology Best of the Web 2009.

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