Sommer Antrim

Two loose pennies in a pocket

          abandoned forever to the lint trap

                    dusty unders of a shelf

                                        weed pushing up through a road crack

bum bundled on the corner begging

          for change

                    when it is everywhere

                    unstoppable

          pause                    for the next heartbeat

My sister's body is expanding to the open stretch of a meadow,

a mountain or shore or total Earth all balanced on her

two legs that months ago supported just one torso.