K.M.A. Sullivan

Considering antiques and curiosities

In the back room of Foster’s Miscellany,

cardboard Glinda asks Are you a good

witch or a bad witch? as she rests 

between a flying lizard and whore house coins. 

Good for one screw, one stogie, one whiskey 

announces the gold rush remnant. It turns out 

the coins are replicas, not good for anything

but flexing the imagination of a 

middle-aged woman. The lizard, 

glued to board and under glass, reveals sails 

of pleated skin, a long graceful tail, 

and a desiccated body that used to glide

through the heated air of Papua New Guinea.