In this chapbook, her third collection of poetry, Deborah Hochberg traverses the landscape of loss.
and in another
alternate reality
it is you who must go on
without me
without our nightly conversations
how we could talk
about anything
about everything
Weaving back and forth in time, from youthful innocence through illness and bereavement, these poems seek to chart the wild and disorienting experience of grief.
The other side
lies closer
than we think
One moment here together
a gentle communion
as if known
before
it was to be
our last
conversation
Existing in a place between absence and presence, these bittersweet and unsentimental poems honor a singular relationship and the persistence of human connection.