Worth Remembering
Why are we fascinated by lost battles,
especially those with Nazis?
They were experts at pain,
even when they shot at people
like my grandfather
and missed, they still left wounds.
Too many hours are wasted
reading about obscure officers,
whose greatest accomplishments
were failed operations
with strange codenames-
their dead eyes preserved in black and white,
while my grandfather's headstone
is conquered by moss.
In that same cemetery, his eldest son
was buried
in an unmarked grave.
Richard LeDue was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, but currently lives in Norway House, Manitoba. His work has been published by the Tower Poetry Society, in Adelaide Literary Magazine, the Eunoia Review, Mojave He[art] Review, Little Rose Magazine, Black Bough Poetry, The Mark Literary Review, Lite Lit One, Rue Scribe, and Detritus Online. Further work is forthcoming in Bonnie's Crew and Deracine Literary Magazine.
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