Poems of What remains

Poems of What Remains is a collection of poems about what it means to remain present when life becomes heavy.

These are poems about responsibility, fatherhood, love, faith, memory, vigilance, grief, work, and the quiet burdens people carry without recognition. They are not poems about conquering life or pretending that pain disappears. They are about continuing to stand inside what is real.

The collection moves through the unseen places where much of life is actually lived: the silence after a difficult conversation, the responsibility no one notices, the parent who keeps watch, the person who carries more than anyone realizes, the memories that refuse to leave, and the ordinary acts of love that rarely receive applause.

At the heart of the book is a recurring idea: some of the most important things we do leave no visible monument. They disappear into another person's safety, peace, memory, or ability to continue.

Divided into sections exploring presence, weight, fatherhood and guardianship, memory and origin, and love made ordinary, Still Standing is deeply personal while speaking to anyone who has ever carried something because there was no one else to carry it.

These poems do not promise easy answers.

They simply ask what remains when the answers do not come.

And again and again, the answer is presence.

To love.

To carry.

To remain.

To still be standing.