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”)