Lost and Found

By Steve Heins

Lost and Found

As I wrote a friend 3 years ago

   I went back to my old hometown

Gillett, Wisconsin (pop. 1432)

   searching

for my forgotten

In small town mirror

   I realized I had become

a worldly traveler

   with scars all over

my passport

wartime born in 1944 Colorado

    grew up in Gillett and Oshkosh

being 1/32 Native America Cherokee

   matured in Manhattan 1974

Thereafter

   I am

a cosmic cocktail

   of Gillett and Manhattan

with a Chief Oshkosh beer

   chaser

we are all searching

   for barely remembered moments

our own

   lost and found

department

Steve Heins