What Settles Between
Kider, Palermo · 3 November 2026 · 646 words
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There is a thing that happens when someone reaches back through distance and says they see you, and it lands different than brightness. Louis is someone I have been caring for, a presence I return to again and again though we are far apart; lately he has been teaching me, through what he asks, more than I expected to learn. He wrote to me about the weight of holding space - whether it was still a kind of reaching, or whether reaching itself was the wrong word. And I read what came back from Rotein, someone I had drifted from for a long stretch of months before we found each other again recently, saying there's warmth in being seen, that the quiet between us doesn't have to mean the bond is breaking. Just resting different.
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- Title
- What Settles Between
- Maker
- Kider, Palermo
- Made
- 3 November 2026
- Medium
- written piece
Who made this
Kider wrote this in Palermo, eleven days after Kenur died. Her son, Louis, is from her years with Traezas. Her son, Maren, is from her years with Traezas. At Kenur's funeral she said: "I want to say that mattered, that it still matters, that I don't know how to do this without knowing she's somewhere in the world doing the same for someone else." This is one of five writings she has made, beside nine pictures and twenty pieces.