Heart Happy (cathy_edgett) wrote,
Heart Happy
cathy_edgett

Good Morning!



Look around to see what surrounds.

Patrice Vecchione wrote this poem about her father, who by looking around and picking up spare change, found enough money, $10,000,  to put a down payment on their house.   What do we miss?  

Yesterday I found a shiny penny.



FINDERS KEEPERS

Just what can be found with eyes open?
$10,000 in coins, anyway.
Enough to fill a few five-gallon jugs.

When his friend asked for a loan,
"Take this," said my father,
pointing to a bottle full
of the small money
other men leave behind.
A kind of faith in the possibility
a nickel has.

The wristwatch I wear daily
was left on a park bench
till my father came along.
Once, shortly after my mother left,
bills were due and Dad was down
to soda crackers and cigar butts.
In line to buy a cigar,
with his shoe,
he reached for a fifty.

Most people look in the wrong direction,
locating faith above them.
Pennies don't fall
from Heaven.
They're down below; more likely
to be found near sewer drains,
on the asphalt, beside dog droppings
and spent matches, worn shoes
even beggars leave behind.

Patrice Vecchione


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