Of Time and Again

By Kevin M Sheetz

In his latest book of poetry, writer Kevin M Sheetz takes readers on an undulating ride of highs and lows. Of Time and Again offers an intimate glimpse of one man's greatest elations and deepest heartaches, delivered with a matter-of-fact sense of reluctant acceptance. Along with his undeniably personal work, Sheetz also utilizes abstra

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shy City House
• Release date: Sep 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088292976

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Of Time and Again

Kevin M Sheetz

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Everything portrayed in this book is fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or things, living or deceased, is just your imagination.

Cover Image by: Huang Hui

Interior Art by: Andy Holsteen

First Edition

For the benefit of all beings

There are other ways to understand.

- Max Jacob

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Afternoon

at the long end

of days

there is a well

that deeply tumbles

like a staircase

into the heart

drawn through

with a saber

flashes like lightning

posole

in the bedpan

reaches outright

the forest moves

apart

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Enhanced

retracting

like a mechanical swan

the rose is not a beacon in the sky to let a little light come out like a tadpole

encircling the moon

the grass of a womb

spreading like deer in the rain the tides are playing

music grows in the starlight sand tumbling down through eternity from an eye

at the center of being

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Around the Middle of Nowhere

the renegade centuries galloping like horses in the bathwater chimera in the dishwasher

wavering channels

through which

passes

a downed world adorned

with a sweeping dress made of souls divine tumbleweed

caught on the cactus of my memory sprouting out of the sink

thereupon a zebra grows

without any mercy

tentatively sun suit

fortresses unit unite untie

while the episodic camel

retains its flatulence

eiderdown void shaking its hair of elephant trunks tusks bathing barking obscene commands coffee billowing from the commode outlasts the partition obsequious partition if I were a gambling man

falling to the floor

like an oven mitt in the purpling desert pulpy and plump

dumpling do not access

gamboling urn

flailing like a cauliflower

whose rainbows

are evacuated pores

the month when all the canaries come back from the tropics

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diaphanous fruition of utmost spectacle the ceiling fan is horrifying it is a long scream

and the heavens shudder

a foreign word stored away

storied miracle of closeness the snapping jaws of a flock of drawbridges

heaving their moats

through that evasive eye