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Tag: suicide bereavement

• Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Māori Writers New Zealand Literature podcast poems Reuben Samuel Winter suicide bereavement Verb Wellington

  Two new toikupu (poems and audio)

  November 27, 2021
• Aotearoa

  ‘Each day’s same horizon to be faced’

  I am a gramophone on the subject. Each day’s same horizon to be faced. You long to fade out into it, yourself. I look doggedly after a missing figure. What to do now is clear, and wordless. You will bear what can not be borne. (from ‘He lies somewhere in…

  November 15, 2021
• Aotearoa

  Sparagmos or Aroha?

  For a while I’ve been thinking about the ways I connect, and the risk I take in being unapologetically myself. It has become increasingly distressing to see how people treat one another, particularly online — despite the ‘be kind’ messages that are trotted out. Every day I observe divisive and…

  November 2, 2021
• Aotearoa

  The abyss of deafening silence

  (CW: suicide bereavement) Five months today, since Reuben died — I have become the mother who counts weeks, moons and months. On days like this, where I’ve had very little sleep, and there are demands upon me that feel irrelevant and unimportant in the face of my grief, I want…

  February 17, 2021