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Gigi
She is laughing, sure,
staring at the magic mirror
with wishes far away.
It's blank.
She doesn't know
what's in there
and she's
wanting it.
The Idea of a Stranger
I know her
seeing her on the street.
She will walk around me,
her dogs, pulling their leashes
around her legs,
eyes cast down
until her glance meets mine.
We have a long
history together
in a town just carved
out of the trees.
Designers created mind-things here
lawns and flower beds
out of neatness
and good intentions.
On Seeing "Truman Capote"
The poetry
calls out to me,
slow limpid,
moistly,
but I have to find the thought.
This poetry is
lost in muddles. A tone, toneless.
I see drops of saline,
hear a slow wet march
but can't find the thought.
I know, poetry
will be in words that break logic
someone's confession,
secrets in memories, gates
fragile and slowly opened.
Don Schaeffer established Enthalpy Press and has published 5 chap books
including Time Meat and The Word Cow and the Pig O' Love. ISBN series:
0-9687017 Recent poetry has been published in The Writers Publishing, Lilly
Lit, Burning Effigy Press, Understanding Magazine, "Melange, Tryst,
Quills, and others. His first book of poetry, Almost Full was published
by Owl Oak Press early in the summer of 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology
from City University of New York (1975) and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba with
his wife, Joyce. He recently became the granfather of Hannah Zoe Sasaki
Schaeffer.
Email: Don Schaeffer
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