Heads or Tails

by Michael Dylan Welch and Gary Hotham

First published in Prune Juice 34, July 2021. Originally written in June of 2017.

nickels in my pocket

from our birth years . . .

first of autumn Michael

warm coins

for a cold soda Gary

winter drizzle—

no spare change

for the street performer Michael

spring showers

pennies dropping from

the child’s fist Gary

the ref calls

heads or tails Michael

one long summer day

George Washington didn’t throw

a dollar that far Gary