.
bartender answers phone, wine glasses overhead
in black rack upside-down like crystalline bats
bellike bodies with slim stems in barlight
glistening above a menu stack
glistening over her coiffed head
long before dawn will crack,
hours before her bed will meet her back.
rough start, single mom,
one kid, base pittance + tips,
deck stacked, enough said
except that she and child
and time slip
Jim Culleny
5/12/17
Blink 