This may not be the case if you live in GermanyBut I find it difficult to recall the namesOf stars…
Uh
My dentist calls to tell me, after a lengthy search – before the internetHe’s found an orthodontist who doesn’t use…
Lucky
In Operation Market Garden200 soldiers of the 82nd Airborne’s 504th Parachute Infantry RegimentRowed across the Waal River to take the bridge…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Encounter
I do what I’ll do when there’s free time on a tourHead out into the wilds of the place where…
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…
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…
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…
Roots
He stops drilling into the root canal because I raise my left handTrying my best to hold back a world’s…
Bracing Myself
The green tinted windowsCast an emerald glow over everythingIt’s like coming to Oz to ask for a fillingMy new dentist,…
My new collection of stories, The Rainbows That Follow, is now available
I’m happy to say that my new collection of stories, The Rainbows That Follow, is now available on Amazon in…
Extraction
It’s at moments like these a man faces his mortalitySmokes that last cigarette to settle his nervesA prisoner facing the…
Numb
I’ve lived in Madison three years without a teeth cleaningThe dentist, between grunts, tells me I must do this more…
Before Fluoride
There’s something quirky about his eyesThey vibrate electric, left right left rightTwo butterflies trapped like ratsIn almond-round drains that swirl…
A Few Words to the Wise
I remember how I lost my teeth, the wisdom onesAll four at one blow to a drillAnd on a tray,…
Lanning Lee 