For Jane, Three Days After Her Brother's Passing

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For Jane, Three Days After Her Brother's Passing Shannon Hardwick (bio) —After Jane Cooper Jane, your notebooks haunt us after the wake.We stand up. We sit down. But the burn is slow& you taught us grief can keep long after letting-go. Oblivion starts to stirin the first house built from a child'sscaffolding—your words & John's laughter. We are left imaginingthis autumn out of the pair of you, leavingbefore us in early darkness. You attend to the space, the radiance. It's time to go. But we call out, anyway,into the air, like a body between us, but lighter. [End Page 89] Shannon Hardwick Shannon Hardwick's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast Journal, The Texas Observer, The Missouri Review, Four Way Review, Salamander, Sixth Finch, and Passages North, among others. Hardwick serves as the Editor-in-Chief at The Boiler Journal. Copyright © 2023 Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life