She holds him …
Can’t, won’t, wouldn’t want to let him go, so … she holds him in a slow…………. A slow embrace…
… And so …….
She keeps him close. So… A ghost, an apparition, an animal with vision…- he goes..
She knows his life is right, it’s life; alive- a spirit still beside her.
She knows he rides at night’s time,
the same knight she’d climb-
– beside and next to.
He’s next to .. He’s next, too. …
Her now, Only now-
he is,
with … With her, her kids… He watches out…
Watches over… Watches in…
He watches.. Watch as… He wa…
His watch hangs over- his grandson’s wrist, he’ll enlist,
be present at each:
of– In some .. Or. …
… in all his families
… gatherings..
She supposed -his rings, his calls, his messages, his …
His words were almost All He Had… She supposed those…
Words were all he’d offer… She supposed he’d always offer…
She holds memory-ies/ …. Memories like these -are kept in memoirs, he’s-wrapped in mammary… -glands,
She stands to hug his -LIFE. She’d love to hold his whole… LIFE, his life is what she’d live for.
She knows though –
-that he …
He is gone but watching on… He is on his way, she wants his way…
She Loves him, Way.. She Loves… She holds him in this Hug.
She holds him close…
Philip Dane 