Prose poems capture individual and collective experiences of time and grief, highlighting emotional nuances.
Here sits a series of prose poems, moments from a larger work in progress – of an individual, and at times a collective, experience of time in the after-time of a loss. Finding and reworking language, in loss/ grief/ attentiveness. An interplay between past-time and now-time, between waking and sleep, a moving tableau. Working words, testing, feeling out the saturated physicality and potential of our rhythms. The joy, the ache, the rage, the uncertainty. The dreaming, despite everything.
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Lu Rose Cunningham (2025) studied this question.
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