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“Remains” by Susan Delaney Spear

By Luke Stromberg • August 8, 2022 • E-Verse Universe
In our garage, your hockey skates still dangle. 
Green and yellow parakeets still call 
from your painting on my office wall, 
bright birds slowly dimming on a tangle 
of brown, twigless branches. A singing bowl, 
a book of Dylan’s lyrics, a leather journal 
whose stiffening leaves I turn to read the kernels 
of tunes (the jigsaw pieces of your soul), 
the Warwick bass you paid for by yourself, 
three joints you rolled that I will never smoke, 
a New Year’s gift you gave me as a joke, 
and you—now dust and ash—rest on my shelf. 
Watercolors fade. Ashes scatter, 
but love remains—firm, unchanging matter.


Originally published in Modern Age. 

Susan Delaney Spear is an associate professor of English at Colorado Christian University. She is the author of On Earth... (Resource, 2022), Beyond All Bearing (Resource, 2018) and the co-author of Learning the Secrets of English Verse (2022). You can find her at susandelaneyspear.com.



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    Luke Stromberg is the Associate Poetry Editor of E-Verse. His work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Criterion, The Hopkins Review, Think Journal, and several other venues.

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