The Queen’s Castles, A Poem

Huachuca,
Hood,
Bragg,
Benning,
Leavenworth.

Fields of snow, grass and desert sands forge the leader inside the wild flower,
Caribbean heat fuels the warrior within.

Camp Santiago,
Allen,
Buchanan,
Muñiz.

A distinguished career for the mother turned Colonel...

Memories reside in these unassailable fortresses,
The rest buried under speckled granite,
Forever a mystery to the children born to inherit the empire.