Don Schaeffer established Enthalpy Press and has published 5 chap books including "Time Meat" and "The Word Cow and the Pig O' Love." Recent poetry has been published in The Writers Publishing, Loch Raven Review, 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.
Fall 2009
Table of Contents - Vol. V, No. 3
Don Schaeffer
Although she remains
as a small changing wavelet
through which the particles pass,
everything around her
flows away, all the
material nuggets.
I can't bring
tokens of a home
she can't connect again.
Even the molecules of
her lifetime
scatter.
I forget where I
left the car, and forget
where I live.
I run crazy through the streets
while time slides away on greased rails.
Those who miss me
wait.
A party forces my choices.
I grin for some of them
and leave the rest in the cold.
They wait for me, not present to see,
not knowing I am gone.
We emerge from the battle,
my friends
seeping away into the ground.
I am joyous
even while they
say farewell to the grass.
© Don Schaeffer
