Category: Grief and Grieving
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Grief on the Body: Embodied Loss and Creative Practice as Record
This essay documents grief as a lived bodily state and considers creative practice not as recovery or remedy, but as record: work made alongside life, under altered conditions.
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First Christmas
When your husband was Christmas, you inherit the Turkey Problem. Navigating the first Christmas bereaved – the unfathomable grief, the planning, picking up broken pieces.
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Grief’s Imprint on the Body: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection
A reflective, research-informed exploration of how sudden bereavement reshapes the body, from immune vulnerability to hypervigilance — blending poetry, personal narrative and academic insight.
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Closed Curtains
The body keeps the score. The mind ransacks the memories, grasping to stay among the living. The memories—if they’re of deep love and respect—offer tenderness, warmth. Pale though they are compared to the real thing, they just have to be enough. This is the grindstone of the bereaved.
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Juggernaut and Friends
How to Support Someone Grieving | Juggernaut and Friends | SouthSeaEyes, Printmaker | A Widow’s Reflection on Grief and Friendship.
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Grief I: Sutured With Longings Of You
“The spaces you’ve left are heavy with your memories.I lie here bereft, sutured with longings of you.I miss you” Poem accompaniment of “Grief I: Sutured With Longings Of You”, mixed […]
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Academic Grief Study: Navigating Widowhood Through Research
Monday Morning I woke today rememberinghow his face looked when he sleeps—when we were just starting to be together.In our twenties.We were mere babies. I was a first-year student.He just […]
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Enduring: in the Aftermath of Sudden Loss
The piece, titled “Enduring: in the Aftermath of Sudden Loss – Bin Day,” is a lyrical meditation on grief written by nusye mccomish (southseaeyes) in August 2025. Using the mundane act of taking out the bins as a metaphor, the author explores how loss shatters language, routine, and self‑perception. The deliberate use of lowercase “i” symbolizes a…
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The Glinting Harrow
saturnian shroud of mine darkmother dark light deluge the torn terraincalls for ritualcigarettesmorning coffeethis is the new breakfasti live here nowmy new residential mindscape this texture of grief is the […]