Eric Paul Shaffer | The Sun Magazine

Eric Paul Shaffer

Eric Paul Shaffer is the author of five books of poetry, a novel, and several chapbooks. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and teaches at Honolulu Community College. Of the top ten sentient beings who have had the greatest impact on his life, more than half are not human.

— From August 2011
Poetry

Illumination

On those cold, clear winter mornings, I rise in the dark, and I sit / beneath a lamp with a pen and paper in a circle of light / barely bright enough for the work.

August 2011
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