And then of course there is his memory, alive in everyone he knew. This idea is most beautifully expressed in Galway Kinnell's poem, "Memories of My Father," which I read at the funeral:
...Then the lost one
can fling itself outward, its million
moments of presence can scatter
through consciousness freely, like snow
collected overnight on a spruce bough
that in midmorning bursts
into glittering dust in the sunshine.
 
 
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