Cover of What the Body Remembers by Diane Denise
Poetry

What the Body Remembers

18 poems

A deeply emotional collection about what remains after love, loss, memory, and time have changed us—and what we carry long after we thought we had let go.

when your heart hurtswhen you can't sleep
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The poems
  1. 01I Never Knew1 min
  2. 02Once Love . . . Now Love1 min
  3. 03Perishable Love1 min
  4. 04Famed Sadness1 min
  5. 05Did You Know1 min
  6. 06Second Eighty Six Thousand Four Hundred 1 min
  7. 07Memory Gone By1 min
  8. 08As You Are1 min
  9. 09A Bid To Nothing1 min
  10. 10Un Fueled1 min
  11. 11In Search Of1 min
  12. 12Grey1 min
  13. 13Friend Of Mine1 min
  14. 14Decisions1 min
  15. 15Guess Again1 min
  16. 16Lost Identity1 min
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