Donald C. Welch III is a teaching assistant at the Rebecca School for Autism where he runs the Ultimate Crusaders Poetry Workshop. His current project @SocialLit (https://twitter.com/SocialLit) explores new forms of poetry and collaborative writing derived from Social Media. His collection of children’s poetry Who Gave These Flamingos Those Tuxedos? was published by Emerson College's Wilde Press in 2013.
He has an aubade about the apocalypse forthcoming in the 2016 Winter issue of Window Cat Press. For more on Donald and his work visit: http://donaldcwelch3.tumblr.com
► Donald's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poems are available below. Download the single-page micro-chapbook as a PDF by clicking the title. To read the selected poem below, also click on the title.
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Cover: Moonrise in the
Sculpture Garden
by Lauri Burke
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Every Origami Micro-chapbookmay be printed, for free, from this website. •
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#2 Writing I love you I don’t punctuate
no sign can do justice to the meaning no symbol able to encapsulate the tender subtleties of my feelings If I use a period our love ends you’ve never given me cause to question exclaiming like lust is brief and intense we love without pause or interruption I imagine our words circling back a sentence repeating —eternity— so if you or I ever lose our track I can always find you or you find me My love for you exists in no one place but everywhere at once in time and space |
#4 We’ve got seven-hundred cans of black beans,
about ten thousand gallons of water, a Faraday cage for an EMP, and chickens out back that we can slaughter. We’ve got an armory in our basement and bug out bags hidden on the back porch together we’ll be ready to face it, when, inevitably, worst comes to worst. Still, I can’t prepare for my greatest fear, as sure as the economic collapse, when our love eventually disappears and we’re part of a long forgotten past. Even though death makes the effort absurd love means defending what can’t be preserved. •
Donald C. Welch III © 2016
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