Christina Gessler

Dr. Christina Gessler is a historian, photographer, and poet. In the two years leading up to the Covid outbreak, Christina lost five loved ones, one by one. She wrote this poem in safer-at-home Covid quarantine, about monitoring the news, and the grief experience of wanting to call those who aren’t there anymore to talk about it.
Earth Standing Still
Loss of Earth and Life

While The Earth Stood Still

Dr. Christina Gessler is a historian, photographer, and poet. In the two years leading up to the Covid outbreak, Christina lost five loved ones, one by one. She wrote this poem in safer-at-home Covid quarantine, about monitoring the news, and the grief experience of wanting to call those who aren’t there anymore to talk about it.

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