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,…
The Burning
Merry Christmas, the card was white, like Madison snowAnd like snow does, it’s become splotched with brown. I remember when you…
Wistful
Very soon, she said, maybe next weekHer face pressed against the pillowDamp from this night we sweated in the humidityOf…
You’re So Ambitious for a Juvenile
My guardian angel wasn’t there to protect meWhen my nose sucked in gobs of chlorinated waterMy eyes stinging and my…
The Sounds of Seniors
Listen to your body, they said to me back thenSage advice for a young man with keen hearingSo I listened,…
A Family Tradition
I remember, nearing the endBefore dementia overwhelmed himThe first thing every morningMy father read the newspaperTurning more and more oftenTo…
This Will Be
She will becomeI see it, and I hear itThe prophesy of hope soon to be realizedJust a few more sick…
Lanning Lee 