Bishop's Art District
Dallas

 

ON MOTHER’S DAY

I saw a woman

standing on a busy street corner

holding a sign that said

I’ll bet you can’t hit me with a quarter. 

Passersby were throwing spare change

at her broad intoxicating smile

inside the cut-out hole. 

It seemed out of place

as if she’d just won the lottery. 

I noticed she was holding the sign

with two stubby fingerless hands.