BOOK REVIEWS David Rigsbee reviews All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg
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Elisabeth von Uhl has an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and has been published in Lumina and The Broome Review. Her chapbook, Ocean Sea is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She lives in the Bronx and teaches at Fordham University.
Die Verlassenheit
Sunday: a church door left ajar.
Down the street, an abandoned
house with its roof sunken, windows
broken—too empty to keep echoes.
Inside, the single light bulb is suspended
from its cord against darkness. Loneliness
so close it must have made the bed.
You come inside me and wait
until our solitude pulls away.
Elisabeth von Uhl has an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and has been published in Lumina and The Broome Review. Her chapbook, Ocean Sea is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She lives in the Bronx and teaches at Fordham University.