Echoes in ash Sit here silent as masks Staring right back Through my hyperbole past
The fire, did warm me The whiskey, did sew me Thread, falls from my collapse As whispers of mourning
Portraits of you, next What you've become One's strokes, so vivid The other, rotund
Ashes to echos I wonder if he knows What, all, He left behind
A fog of limbs Eyes in mist Is there, After, life
Rocks; crack, stumble In glass: of tumble As red leather, Made company
Ashes, the echoes Of what was Once, but No more
For Nanu.
My grandfather was cremated last year. I imagine myself in the one red leather chair I always saw him seated in, reflecting on him now, up there, on the mantle.