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.