Flowers
She makes
flowers out of spent
orange peels.
With my stiff fingers
I take the blanket edge
for a stroll to the duvet corner.
We laugh
about how life
will go on forever.
Siona's Orangepeel Sun
Looking for pretty things
and surrounded
in the shop and on the walls
put up with joy
as numerous as smiles
casual as tea.
All of our busy hands
and talkative hearts
buy the pretty things
and make them
like galaxies rising
out of the dark.
Modern Physics
We oscillate.
Particle and anti-particle
do-si-do in our
gelatinous vacuum.
I orbit my shadow
eclipsed and augmented,
shimmering, am
and am-not
hide each other,
do and do-not.
Comatose
When she says
the lonely world
is just as good,
we all mourn
another tuft of grass
pulled out into the sea,
a piece of the beach
eroded,
the Earth shrivelled,
wires unplugged,
propaganda from the enemy
adding to our doubt.
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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