About…
infertility
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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 .
Dusk
devious along the gal
it ran like loping cattle to the trough
and of sympathy it was escorted slowly through her
milking of their sorrow and its shadenfreud
and is she happy ?
well they say that 'dusk is in her sheep'
though what they mean by that
i could not say
and as she ran the furlong
up the slope of Eden hill
her train of shame exposed
to greet her lover in her fox furred hole
the shepherd he saw her
and the milkmaid too
to a crevice in the woods they crept
and heard the hunt a galloping
a hound or two a baying
yet she shows no blame
jollity along the gal
it spread like twilight
and of 'love and barley' as they say
malt bathes the fields hereabouts
though i am unsure what they mean by that
thin as a plum
and dorset red
she is magnificent, a pie
and her crust is amplified by its experience
curious within the girl
it spread like cheese and jam
and though she is rude, she is not without intelligence
brains, rustic like a russet or a pippin
and nuts within
for children
they seem not to come
like foxes at the edge of Eden hill
shy and brown like dusk