On Friday, July 21, 2015, my wife and I decided it was the perfect day to finally scatter her mother's ashes in the Lake she so cherished, Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You'd think it would be a simple task, but there was quite a bit of sibling argument about where she should be interred. my wife's sister was the primary caregiver of her mother in later years, and she wanted all the ashes buried in the local plot in Lakewood Cemetery. But Karen, my wife, had discussed scattering them in Lake Harriet with her mother several times. It was finally allowed to give her a few ounces of her ashes to go into the Lake. We waited for a windy, sunny day in summertime to do it and purchased a stone plaque to place in the water where the ashes were scattered. The collage shows the site, the plaque front and back, and what is written on it. Her ashes floated a bit then disolved into a milky substance that sunk to the bottom slowly. On one side we wrote her name, birth and death date. The other side reads "Forever Remembered, Forever Missed".

This poem is a set of quintains witrh a refrain and closing envoi. The rhyme scheme is:
aabbaR ccddcR eeffeR gghi

The photographs for the collage were taken and organized by the author himself.

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