These forms repeated are

shapes of grief

shapes of familiarity

shapes of memory

shapes of reach.

Forces Fleeting is my wordless eulogy; my entry point to beginning to comprehend the death of my father. To comprehend this enormous loss, I must remember. To remember, I must invent, because memory is mysterious, memory is elusive, and memory is uncertain. 

Memory is imaginative.

These forms repeated are

a water tower

a train track

a cluster of frozen trees

a grid of power lines.

Are places. Are shadows.  Are ideas. Are symbols. 

Connections. 

Through time. 

Connections. 

Through space. 

Connections. 

I repeat to remember. I destroy to reimagine. I bury to unearth. 

Grief is a door. 

Invisible darkness. 

Saturated blackness. 

Deep as an ocean. 

Endless as the horizon.

These forms are

loving my Dad

remembering his suffering

 honoring his longing. 


Tower/Father, 2021