he felt his father shadow cross his own,
he heard his father's word, absurd,
overlapping, and smirked.
he remembered his father crying at the airport,
the sluice of all the never-said,
in days of mandated visitation,
after days of dog-eyed silence
absurd, he thought, after death, so long,
there's still biology, so long, the shadow, the smirk,
and the absurd return of silent shadow, fathering
dreams never said, fathering still more dreams,
undead.