STILL STANDING: Poems of Presence, Weight, and Love That Does Not Move (Poems of Staying)

STILL STANDING

Still Standing is a collection of poems written from the place where responsibility settles—and does not leave.

These poems are not about expression.
They are about what is carried.

They speak from the position of someone standing between harm and those who cannot yet defend themselves—absorbing weight, holding silence, remaining present when nothing can be fixed.

Here, love is not sentiment.
It is vigilance.

Faith is not certainty.
It is endurance.

The language is spare.
Nothing is wasted.
Silence is allowed to do its work.

Rooted in lived experience as a father, husband, and attorney, these poems honor the unseen labor of care: the body as witness, strength as something quiet, and love as something that stays without applause.

This is a book for readers who understand:

• strength is usually invisible
• love does not take turns
• some things are not resolved—only carried

There is no performance here.
No easy resolution.
Only presence.

This is not a book about becoming more.
It is about remaining.