I have been following Ali Riad's poetry since its beginnings. Like most people of this generation, he favored prose poetry, which lacked the energy of chanting and indulged in easy displacements and linguistic play. But in his book, "Separation," he takes his prose to the greatest extent he declares it. Poetry does not plead for condensed, telegraphic sentences, but for more narration, storytelling, storytelling, and dialogue, all of which is signed in pure language. A question arises here about the separation that grips these poems: separation from anything? In favor of anything? Although the poems are concerned with relationships between the self and familiar things, alienation remains the focus of this relationship, as separation is at the root of our relationship with the world. Is this what Ali Riad's poems want to convey? At least this is what reached me. Another book by Ali Riad, which confirms his belief in poetry, enhances his experience and makes us stand at the threshold waiting for him.