the dangers of middle age flirting with its youth
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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 .
Hen
her pile frock and its hen a glaze
like iridescent sunshine on her plumage
wild and blind as any fantasy
it would be fine if she were twelve
but sadly she is fifty three