Don Schaeffer's Poems

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Showing posts from 2007

December 26, 2007

The Stroke

December 25, 2007

Meditiation on a Nutcracker

December 23, 2007

What the Gunmen Said in a Dream

December 23, 2007

Internet Dialog

December 18, 2007

Let 'Em Eat Meringue Pie

December 18, 2007

Afternoon of a Faun

December 16, 2007

This Afternoon

December 14, 2007

I Can No Longer Feed You My Love

December 14, 2007

The Christmas Party

December 10, 2007

Calling

December 02, 2007

Time Blind

November 25, 2007

A New Hypothesis

November 25, 2007

What Would Have Been a Conversation

November 25, 2007

68th Birthday

November 24, 2007

68th Birthday: A Poetry Video

November 15, 2007

Fred Astaire

November 15, 2007

On the 47 West

November 12, 2007

Frequent Naps

October 31, 2007

Sharon Might Be

October 26, 2007

The Human Sea

October 23, 2007

Fly Me to the Moon

October 20, 2007

Tea for Two

October 20, 2007

Patrons of the Cafe

October 20, 2007

Hannah's Birthday

October 13, 2007

What I Saw in the Emergency Room at Two AM

October 06, 2007

Passion Fruits

October 03, 2007

Afternoon in Kildonan Mall

September 29, 2007

The Space Age: in celebration of the first launch of Sputnik

September 28, 2007

Breast and Telephone

September 18, 2007

Empathy for an Unborn Child

September 17, 2007

Seeing in Ultrasound

September 14, 2007

The Sport

September 11, 2007

Changeling at Brunch

September 11, 2007

The Fight

September 11, 2007

Laughing as I Remove My Coat

September 11, 2007

Exit D'Jour

September 05, 2007

All I can Say about Stanley Plumly's Poem

September 02, 2007

Nice Day Dammit

August 30, 2007

The Back Porch

August 30, 2007

Diversification

August 24, 2007

Letter to the Female Ambassador

August 22, 2007

The Mind Eating Snake

August 19, 2007

Halfway to Ghosthood

August 17, 2007

A Summer Day

August 17, 2007

Watching Two Students on the Side Seat of the 77 Polo Park

August 17, 2007

This Is How You Grow Old

August 09, 2007

The Importance of Distress

August 05, 2007

Individual to Individual

August 03, 2007

The Kiss

August 03, 2007

Woman and Girl Appearing at the Mall Entrance Like a Dream

August 03, 2007

When I Couldn't Call My Daughter "Dude"

Through the Rabbit Hole

If St. Peter Were a Butler

The Next Bed

Visit to the Border

Parallel Lines

A Poem by a Friend

The Goodness of the Flowers

Mozart

Eighteen Speeds

Fast Food Luncheon

The Hospital

Alien Thoughts of an Earthly Creature

Shyness Coming of Age

After If I Loved You

Workshopper at Lunch

The Binding of Rosie

In the Vicinity of a Magical Princess

On Golden Pond

Commercial for Viagra

A Career of Burglarproof Doors

Poems

The Window Makes A Silent Movie Out Of Everything

Popular Girl

Disappearing Boy

More Than Passing Interest

Big Woman in Long skirt

Bird Calls in Spring

The World Opening Ritual

On Becoming Grandpa

Getting to Speak

Monday Morning Nine AM

Unregeneracy

Teflon

Week at a Hotel in a Foreign Country: Inspired by a Movie

Bus Portrait

For You Too Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt

The Grocer

Becoming the Grocer

What Is In Her Head

Not Goodbye

Perversity

Katherine Hepburn in Alice Adams

The Pedestrian

The Return Trip

Early in Eden

Guy in the Cell Phone Kiosk

Cheeks

The Burned Out Furnace

February 27, 2007

Growth

February 24, 2007

Female Neighbors

February 23, 2007

The Concrete Man

February 22, 2007

The Over Man

February 20, 2007

My Participation in the Growth of My Dream

February 17, 2007

To Professors Flemming, Lavine, and Cline

February 14, 2007

Woman Who Looks Like Gertrude Schmeidler*

February 12, 2007

Watching Movies in the Evening

February 12, 2007

Nineteen-Fifty-Four

February 07, 2007

Aftermath of Katrina

February 05, 2007

Reading about the Lives of Saints

February 02, 2007

Memory as Hologram

February 01, 2007

Corridor

January 27, 2007

Life of the Egg

January 25, 2007

Pride of the Humble

January 23, 2007

Leaks

January 20, 2007

Dawn

January 18, 2007

Wednesday

January 13, 2007

Freedom Has Been on the March

January 10, 2007

The Beginning

January 08, 2007

Someone's Private Gripe

January 05, 2007

Members of the Town

January 03, 2007

Critique of a Short Poem