Fantasia
Are you bigger in your absence
than your presence could command
Is your memory that much stronger
than your being when at hand
Does the legend of your fancy
stretch the truth of what you’d done
The imagined and embellished
—a false legacy becomes
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
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