STILL STANDING
About this ebook
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.
About the author
William G. Boundroukas is an Illinois attorney and author whose work explores responsibility, faith, family, memory, endurance, and the quiet obligations people carry when life does not offer easy answers.
After more than three decades practicing law, Boundroukas began publishing fiction, poetry, and practical nonfiction drawn from the worlds he knows best: professional responsibility, family life, caregiving, loss, faith, and the experience of continuing when stopping is not an option.
His books include literary and Christian fiction, the speculative series The Worlds That Remember, the Still Functioning books, and poetry collections including Still Standing and By What It Does. Though his books move across different genres, they return to a common question: what does it mean to remain present, responsible, and loving when circumstances cannot simply be fixed?
Boundroukas lives and works in the Chicago area. His writing is shaped by his Greek-American background, Orthodox Christian faith, legal career, and life as a husband and father.
He writes not primarily to provide answers, but to recognize the people who continue to carry, witness, love, and stay.
