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What I Want to Say to the Young Man about The Missing Cat
I'm old and
find myself worrying about the cat.
while you
open the door
and rush about the world.
I'm light in weight now
never really
leaving my night clothes,
a confined creature.
You think of bigger outside things.
Your promises to me are
small in worth.
Now I know I am old,
far beneath you.
My voice fades.
I fall asleep with prayers.
A Full Passage
I ask, Who are you?"
now that we reach a parting.
How long did it take
to grow your heart?
Pieces at a time
from emptiness;
or from popping
into this universe
full of old memory?
How long is the passage
through your body?
Where does it lead?
We laugh and take each other
over the past. How deep is that?
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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