A strong extended image that has prompted a lot of thought.
The speaker seems to be imagining how he will be remembered after death, an intriguing topic.
It feels intentionally hazy, appropriate for the topic.
Flotsam suggests a flood, a strong choice. A disaster, partially unpredictable, but a particularly natural eventually-inevitable one.
There is nothing here (unless I'm missing it) to suggest the speaker's relationship to the man, suggesting the possibility that this is just someone who happened to be there at the moment of the speaker's death. That this is the man the speaker would think about when imagining death (a man yet unknown to the speaker except theoretically) feels lonely.
FWIW.
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