About Lifetimes & Life’s Lines by Kevin Heaton
In the dance of words, a good poetry collection should invite us to age more graciously. Its yellowing pages & timeless verses should give rise to a celebration of life’s extreme pendulum swings. Each time we reread that work, we will find ourselves feeling more & more a part of it until, at some whimsical point, we will wish to never leave it:
“Pause. Enter the enchantment of woodland serenity. Witness a newborn fawn unwind the umbilical embrace, & take her stand. Accept that all you are, is not all there is.”
– from Be Still & Know
“This poem is about I love you, breathing on its own; beyond lust, beyond self. This poem is about: Sighing for your sorrow. A quickened pulse cheering on your victories. Washing your feet with my tears. Sipping daylight from your smile. Believing, without groping your wounds.”
– from This Poem is About