she gestured a combination"pretty often."
shrug (not even moving a shoulder,
just that soft raising of the cheekbones -
that humorful resignation glinting in her pupils) and
that twisting of the out-stretched palm-down hand, back and forth
that has come to mean fifty (maybe yes - maybe no) fifty
around her the noise of the bar
cushioning the brittle
clicking pool balls
and her smile made me
(Perhaps this will conjure her)