Karen Bookguilder is intended to be a collection of poems 60 poems expressly for the Book Guild
by Mike Burr - the themes being dictated by or about its published artisans .
Atoms
conspiring atoms beneath your shell
your symmetry is changing
and your consanguinity with time
they say "there is none"
this is not so - their minds are incomplete
be assured decay is absolute
they say "there is always hope"
but there is none
not even chance in her chanting majick tower
with arms aloft and coercing to the forces
of the nether world mysterious
can raise that ghoul like faith
yet in that last destruction
we will know our glories and our faults
blazing there until they silent steal away