The Case of the Eternal Adolescents

The Hardy boys never had sexNever produced progeny to perpetuate the detective family dynastyNo junior detectives carrying on the family traditionFrank … More

Serene

When you travel you’re tossed in a tornado of sights and soundsA tsunami of exposure flattening your brain with crushing … More

An Issue Put to Bed

The fine art of editing, he found,A gift acquired only over timeThe learning of life’s grammar and punctuationTo gather and … More

At the Louvre Museum

Amazing how quiet the multitude of viewersCompared to the works that speak to usEach visitor drawn to something somewhere hereThis … More

Night Watch

They sat and smoked the cigarettes they’d rolledLaughing softly about the way the grass grew hereCompared to how it waved … More

The Green Waves Roll

When they mow the lawns where the white crosses lieEach section of the American Cemetery at Normandy is cordoned offSeparating … More

Becoming a Nazi

This may not be the case if you live in GermanyBut I find it difficult to recall the namesOf stars … More

Uh

My dentist calls to tell me, after a lengthy search – before the internetHe’s found an orthodontist who doesn’t use … More

Lucky

In Operation Market Garden200 soldiers of the 82nd Airborne’s 504th Parachute Infantry RegimentRowed across the Waal River to take the bridge … More

My Father’s War Souvenir

Paulie, my father’s friend in Madison, tells meThat after the Army bussed him back to MilwaukeeHaving held onto him for … More

Annual Birthday Party at the Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany

He stands at the podium projecting out over the fieldGrips the railing, his hands a ghostly whiteThe master orator had … More

The American Cemetery at Lorraine, France

All of them, like brilliant dominoes, lined up in perfect rowsColumns of names carved in stone, these markers of soldiers … More

Why Do I Shiver at the Site?

It gives me a chill, somewhat of a frightening shiverTo stand at the grave of a Nazi General and feel … More

The Haunting of Permanent Night

The moon may go down, but the night never endsHere where we mingle with the spirits of the deadIn the … More

The Concentration Camp at Dachau, Germany

I’ve traveled by myself, and I’ve gone with tour groupsAnd the thing about solo journeys is thisWith trips anywhere when … More

Encounter

I do what I’ll do when there’s free time on a tourHead out into the wilds of the place where … More

Christmas in September

The man wears a T-shirt that says“Spending Christmas with My Kids & My Cats”There’s a cartoon drawing of two playful … More

Age Before Beauty

She asks me how old I amWe’re standing side-by-side at the row of individual sinksI wonder each time I come … More

Transportation Inspiration

Planes are for writing poetryThink turbulence encounteringPerhaps Death’s come a’knockingHis scythe gleaming keenlyBringing instant panic with stomach acrobatics An inspirational moment … More

Roots

He stops drilling into the root canal because I raise my left handTrying my best to hold back a world’s … More