Drink Store Auntie

Her fingers are fluent.
Razor vision, the better for finding
Exact in all shapes and sizes.
Pecking hen, this is sand

And that is grain.
She drops into my palms
Twenty cents.
Here’s the change.

The pink plastic basket
Deformed by coins remained
Undisturbed, slightly reshuffled,
Tinkle of movement overhanging

The nest of shiny metal eggs.