He Loved Bread

Lise Kunkel
Growing Grief
Published in
1 min readDec 4, 2023

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this is another part of life
where not a bit of my effort
will make what was rise again

I almost stopped after four dates
Isn’t that funny?
four dates — not one, not two

what was it I so valued that before starting
I accepted the probability of letting go —
you described two open heart surgeries

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Lise Kunkel
Growing Grief

for the love of the written word. Pronouns she/her