Ever After: Poems and Prose

By Keith Deutsch

Ever After is a collection of poetry, prose, and images born from a life interrupted-and rebuilt.

From a Minnesota farm to the battlefields of Iraq, from hospital rooms and rehabilitation to fatherhood, faith, and the quiet work of learning how to live again, these pages trace one man's journey through suffering without allowing suffering to have the final word.

The poems do not attempt to make pain beautiful. They explore what pain can reveal: the fragility of life, the weight of memory, the importance of gratitude, and the people who carry us when we cannot carry ourselves.

War and injury are part of this story, but they are not its destination. Ever After is ultimately about what remains after everything we thought defined us has been stripped away. It is about family, loss, resilience, forgiveness, purpose, and the stubborn persistence of hope.

Through deeply personal poetry and accompanying artwork, Keith Deutsch looks backward without living backward, finding meaning not by escaping the difficult chapters of his life, but by recognizing what they taught him.

Because sometimes the end of one story is simply the beginning of what comes Ever After.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFHSCH7S
• ISBN13: 9798192909492
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"