Parallel Lines

Lately I've been
in places where lots of people talk
but not to me.
And as I sit
glancing into my
lunch, coffee, newspaper or hands
I hear daughter and
away-in-August,
cottage and
next year,
Dodge Caravan,
the money
and I think yes.
It is not yet death.

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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