1,000,000 Pennies and the Pea

Image by Jannie Funster


1,000,000 Pennies and the Pea

Bitty child in a red dress
standing short and erect
on the edge of a sea of
copper, 1,000,000 pennies
for the eye to see and
contemplate, pennies that
all have stories of their own,
and shrill metallic voices
all competing for the child’s
attention. Some say dive in,
swim in a sea of pennies,
pumpkin, and others wail
for they have a sad tale of
how little is their worth in
this day, in this place; some
still coated in pocket lint,
some so shiny they dare the
shutter to capture their
brilliance, honest Abe turned
every which way under the
mantle, the ceiling of bones,
God help us, yes, bones, and
as the child peers up at the
golden bleached whiteness of
them, she does wonder how many
lizards & hamsters & frogs & puppy
dog tails it takes to make a roof
over the penny puddle? But all is
well, all is OK in the land of Funster;
for there are no blue bunny bones
in the mess.

Glenn Buttkus

As a responsive comment over on Jannie Funster