On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the FloodOn Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood

"In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta-- a crisis that would become the…