Building A Raft Through The Tidal Wave Of Absence

Artifacts of Grief · Oct 8, 2026 · 55m

William shares the story of the loss of his Aunty Jo and the ways in which experiencing three concurrent losses shifted his understanding of himself and his emotions. He speaks of the grief of absence, both before and after death, and what it means to stop building dams and start building rafts.

William Latham (he/him) is a kiwi living on treaty 6 land. On his right hand, just past the last phalange of his middle finger, sits a long-callused burl of hard flesh against which a pen, for the last fifteen years, has been pressed, supporting a sometimes heavy and sometimes puttering stream of…