Published in War, Literature and the Arts, 1997 and in Thomas J. Cooley Journal of Clinical and Practical Law, 2001. It won a Clincal Legal Education Association poetry award.

Glenn Miller was missing. Somewhere over the English Channel,

his plane went down in December 1944. You'd been drafted,

even with a wife and two daughters to support and

day work in a defense plant and night work in the clubs,

your teeth clamped onto the reed of a saxophone, chin tucked in…