I was walking next to an elderly woman.

Suddenly she stopped, bent over, and picked up a dime

that was lying there on the sidewalk.

"Wow!!" I said to her. "Now you will have ten days of good luck."

"Yes," she replied, smiling. "My late grandfather is  always dropping money for me from Heaven."

I smiled at this thought.

Then she said, "I,wish he would start dropping hundred-dollar bills !"

My great great grand mother
used to hum
when she made coffee
or fixed lunch
in her kitchen

She used to hum
in the garden
and while knitting
in her chair
in her living room

She used to hum
when there were no other sounds
when nobody was talking
until she could no longer knit
and so the sounds of tv
took over

My daughter bears her name
and she hums
when she plays with her toys
and when  she draws
my daughter hums, too

there are only few hours
till dawn
and alarm clocks
but there are bubbles
in the dark
under skin
inside
there are fires
and a puppeteer
with a wish
to make those bubbles burst
in amazing showers