Coin Of The Realm
Xeno tried
to mentally collapse the bicentennial quarter every day at lunch
focused, perspiring
as the others ate their simple meals
of tortillas, beans and rice.
And once
he thinks he might have done
but for sweet Pochita's usual midday game
of cat and mice.
So still
he fasts away the highest sun
imagining less space
between matters
in the radius of his coin's toss.
Coin Of The Realm