Ancestral Shore
Sequestered in Sheboygan
on the shores of oceanic
Lake Michigan
for twenty years
Within one mile of where
I overlook the great inland sea
landed my Great
Great Grandfather Charles
in 1850
Alone barely sixteen
he braved the Atlantic passage
the Saint Lawrence seaway
to precede me here
I treasure that thought
pioneer Heins
on American soil
my neighbor
Steve Heins