The Time Shop: Collected Poems

By Karen Nilsen

"THE TIME SHOP . . . what does it mean? Can you buy precious minutes there? Priceless hours? Slightly used months from a wastrel's life for cheap? Fifty years for a golden jubilee? Six decades for a diamond one?" These poems invite us to explore our shadow and our fragile, yet beautiful, mortality and what may come after through stories in verse. The reader meets various characters from a weary Greek deity to a hapless Puritan to a dead Viking king. Even the author herself, a slightly off-kilter cat lady who was born middle-aged, makes an appearance in several of the poems. Below is a list of the verses included in this collection:
The Time Shop (2025)
Roses Are Red (1988)
Aurora, Goddess of the Skies (1991)
Susan (1992)
Flirting (1995)
The Dark Travels (1996)
The Siren (1996)
Lucifer (1996)
Quicksilver and the River (1996)
Ocean Sunset (1996)
The Slaughter (1996)
The Funeral of Scyld Scefing (1997)
There is a Mad Artist (1997)
The Brainwasher (1997)
Ritz-Carlton Lions (1997)
Memories in Bones (1998)
The Betrayer (1999)
In Hell without a Cigarette (1999)
Ophelia in a Bottle (1999)
Paradise Beach (1999)
On Freud's Couch (2000)
Tituba's Archimedes (2000)
Wilderness Poem (2009)
Crossing the Styx (2014)
Meditation on the Pond (2019)
The Narcissus Dilemma (2023)
The Wisdom of Honey (2022)
Luna Moth (2020)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPMSS4HF
• ISBN13: 9798262773619
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"