Riggs’s book-length poetry cycle begins with 47-line poems (corresponding to the author’s age) and breaks its form as it builds, riding on association and assonance. Lines seeks to turn colonial power & patriarchy on its head through the movements of the mind and the sanity of poetry.

“In Lines, rows of text gather meaning as they go, creating a dizzying, chromatic accumulation. Riggs’s language games challenge the reader to explore a type of refractive logic; each daily poem becomes kaleidoscopic, a testament to the way Time stutters, collapses and expands.”
— J. Mae Barizo