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Don Schaeffer
Don Schaeffer was born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1940. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from City University of New York (1975). He 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, Burning Effigy Press, Understanding Magazine,
Melange, Tryst, Quills, and others.
On Hearing Stravinsky
It's all right if you
picnic gently around the edges
in your soft colors and your
predictability.
But beyond that, the land
asks discomforting questions.
When I hear the muwahh muwaaa
I don't think of hunters.
That life in there is pretty
deliberate. It tangles angrily.
It is accustomed to death,
takes it for granted like religion.
The trees prevent tactics
and permit surprises.
And the earth is still
a mass of worms.
My Epic
Like the beginning of a big
movie, the field of the eye
spans the earth, quickly
narrowing into a city
and street.
From the sweep of the planet,
it devolves into
a stage set.
We take
this entire house
and wear it down
to one crowded
corner.
copyright © Don Schaeffer
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