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Lise Kunkel
Lise Kunkel

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Trees

for my husband I was thinking about a walk with you in Highland Park, quite spontaneously we wrapped our arms around two trees not the lilacs or pines, deeper in the woods We held their thick trunks, our arms not nearly able to complete the circle we felt so strongly in our…

Poetry

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Trees
Trees
Poetry

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Pinned

The Second Year After Your Death

The Second Year After Your Death

Widowhood

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The Second Year After Your Death
The Second Year After Your Death
Widowhood

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Pinned

Falling in Love with Jo

Your beauty, thought and whim, the doom  & awe of a wild rain

Little Women

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Falling in Love with Jo
Falling in Love with Jo
Little Women

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Jan 16

A Friend of Silence

Walking to Belfast Friends Meeting yesterday, I looked down Union Street toward the horizon to what seemed an impenetrable matte-white cloud bank below which a sliver of arctic blue sky offered itself. I stopped and reached out my hand as if to peel back the clouds to reveal just a…

Silence

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A Friend of Silence
A Friend of Silence
Silence

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Jul 8, 2022

On the Death of another Dear One

My fat-throat spits tears everywhere, tears

Grief

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On the Death of another Dear One
On the Death of another Dear One
Grief

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Growing Grief

·Jun 24, 2022

He died that morning in the way a leaf is released from a…

I could tell you the story or you could imagine the sadness of autumn

Poem

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He died that morning
in the way a leaf is released 
from a tree
He died that morning
in the way a leaf is released 
from a tree
Poem

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May 11, 2022

Johnson Hill

May 10, 2022 —

Poetry

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Johnson Hill
Johnson Hill
Poetry

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Growing Grief

·May 3, 2022

Reminders

Anything I can muster as evidence the smell of your coat still hangs in the closet from our bed, thick-sleep crusts from my eyes the…

Grief

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Reminders
Reminders
Grief

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Apr 1, 2022

for my daughter

for my daughter

Poem

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After I’m Gone, Paint the Earth with my Ashes
After I’m Gone, Paint the Earth with my Ashes
Poem

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Mar 27, 2022

You are my Internet Family

I’m so quick to share happy, quirky, anything nature (not roadkill), writing I am working on, my political dissatisfaction. Hey, Social, gripe with me, cheer for me, dance with me, read me: You are my peeps. The content that attracts me isn’t so different. Scrolling, I’m drawn-in, in that digital…

Essay

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Essay

5 min read

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Lise Kunkel

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