An Accounting

By John Grey

I grew up in Australia
and you in Massachusetts.

How we got together
just feels like small change
at this point.
No need to 
stuff my hand in my pocket.
I know it’s there.

Randomness, coincidence…
they’re just quarters and dimes,
pennies even.

The real money is us.
We count on it
more than we count it.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink and Tenth Muse. Latest books, “Subject Matters”,” Between Two Fires” and “Covert” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson Literary Review, Amazing Stories and Cantos.