Not much question who wrote this! It's one of the lightest and airiest poems about the dead I've ever seen. I applaud that quality. For me it brings up the question of reincarnation: whether the speaker is in fact an emanation of the dead man. I much admire Rhina's comment: "We think of the past as retreating into a farther distance, as do the dead, but this poem reverses that notion, and implies that the dead 'remember' with us."
Whether or not they do remember with us is, for all practical purposes, irrelevant; it gives comfort to think so, and in the face of death we take comfort where we can.
Terese
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