Poems for Two Voices is a deeply introspective meditation on loss, specifically the small vanishings that dot our day-to-day lives: your favorite pen misplaced; the cafe you walk by every morning suddenly closed; your afternoon comfort show no longer in rerun. Writer Max Henninger invites us to sit with these absences, asks us to consider and hold onto the connections we still have to those missing things for just a few more moments, before they dissipate as well.

Henninger presents Poems for Two Voices as just that: two disembodied voices that could be in conversation; or competing with each other for the same breath; or arriving to us asynchronously across a vastness of time and space. Brilliantly, Henninger keeps their relationship hidden, just another vanishment that we must reckon with in a sea of persistent vanishings.