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In reply to the discussion: I picked up my brother's remains at the Post Office the other day. [View all]
The Ashes
BY KARIN GOTTSHALL
You were carried here by hands
and now the wind has you, gritty
as incense, dark sparkles borne
in the shape of blowing,
this great atmospheric bloom,
spinning under the bridge and expanding
shape of wind and its pattern
of shattering. Having sloughed off
the urn's temporary shape,
there is another of you now
tell me which to speak to:
the one you were, or are, the one who waited
in the ashes for this scattering, or the one
now added to the already haunted woods,
the woods that sigh and shift their leaves
where your mystery billows, then breathes.
BY KARIN GOTTSHALL
You were carried here by hands
and now the wind has you, gritty
as incense, dark sparkles borne
in the shape of blowing,
this great atmospheric bloom,
spinning under the bridge and expanding
shape of wind and its pattern
of shattering. Having sloughed off
the urn's temporary shape,
there is another of you now
tell me which to speak to:
the one you were, or are, the one who waited
in the ashes for this scattering, or the one
now added to the already haunted woods,
the woods that sigh and shift their leaves
where your mystery billows, then breathes.
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My condolences to you....your brother sounds like he was a wonderful human. Hugs to you. n/ t
iluvtennis
Aug 2021
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