Pictures of my father (thing) by RACECAR

PICTURES OF MY FATHER

Photographs of my father rest in piles on the piano and the dining room table. We make a collage on poster boards of our favorites, our dearest. Pictures to remember the legacy of his life; school pictures, from Vietnam, skinny, with a beard, at our graduations, my sister's wedding...
Moments captured ago, which now, (in vain) try to express him. They just don't give enough.
The poster boards were put on easels at the funeral home. An open escape from the ominous coffin nearby. A chance to forget death for a moment and remember.
Now, the boards we pasted with pictures are behind the couch in our back room. The back room where his closet is still filled with his suits and ties, his shoes... (his shoe shine kit...). Next to the paper bags the hospital gave me filled with his personal belongings.

Questions I'd like to ask my father	My Father's Funeral Service	The Sesame Street Effect	Memory of my father
paper bag	Why do we hurt when our loved ones die?	great things he has taught us	The Christmas Ladder
It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies	the answer is love	Extra dimensions of a photograph, fading rapidly	You, My Father
A letter to my father	My father	Saying goodbye to my father	He dreams between yesterdays, Cliff’s Hand Bag and Fade away blue
let sleeping dogs lie	These pictures are her past. These pictures are my future.	The awkward quiet of hospital hallways	Time stands still in the wake of yesterday
Dancing with my father	Repose	Letters from my mother