A review by lifeinpoetry
Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley
5.0
Excerpts:
I slept. In my sleep, I wept as I
dreamt you were still good to me.
I awoke in unrelenting tears.
(from “Following Heine”)
“Move on,” you hear, but to what howling emptiness?
(from “Little Eva”)
I try to find you, yet you are not here. / I’ve studied absence, fought to fill it in—
(from “Hiding in plain sight”)
There was and there is a life, I swim in it, but I wouldn’t say that it’s exactly “mine.”
(from “Pythian”)
I slept. In my sleep, I wept as I
dreamt you were still good to me.
I awoke in unrelenting tears.
(from “Following Heine”)
“Move on,” you hear, but to what howling emptiness?
(from “Little Eva”)
I try to find you, yet you are not here. / I’ve studied absence, fought to fill it in—
(from “Hiding in plain sight”)
There was and there is a life, I swim in it, but I wouldn’t say that it’s exactly “mine.”
(from “Pythian”)