Sophia DiCristoforo

Worth a Penny

I find you in the grocery aisles

I see you kerplunking into fountains

In junk drawers and car crevices, you retire

I give you as change and customers chuckle

I think of you as I hear laughter not my own

I look for you when my lunch table is barren

In search of friends to share my love

When hello and smiles have unknown power

Your shimmering face melting beneath rust

They threaten you with second demise

Stories from fingers of whom you are thrust

They pass by without mind to your name

Oh Abe I remember when joy was found in raindrops

I took you home where you slept soundly in jean pockets

I clutched you as my pals and I scampered towards gumdrops

I’ll still remember your name my forgotten Penny