December 30, 2020

 

COINS 

Coins, pennies, nickels
dimes, quarters, half dollars,
rest easy in dishes and jars
on bureau tops and desk drawers,
and outside in the earth around
the world are coins worth millions
and millions of dollars from way
way back – unused, unknown,
unaccounted for – and deep
within all of us is love much
more valuable unused, unknown,
and unaccounted for.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020