About…
steven hawking
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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 .
Rapid
three light raps rapid upon the raping wall
it is impatience waiting
time has come a calling
the plastic surface of the earth
to move incredible like liquid
and the trees exulted fly
indelible the skies etched with solid clouds
are scarred, the tracery of the firmament upon them
three rapid raps upon the wall come calling
three thirty three upon the clock
in a dark potended night
august the silent winds are biding sullen
and those same grey clouds a trembling
waiting for their time to rapid race
and spit their acid spittle on your face
as levers in the heavens heave as ancient clockwork might
in miniature they lever the tiny motions of your dream
you saw the earth upon the floor
as children's marbles cast and smashed
and realised your place was far away in elsewhere
the images of chaos linked foretold
there are but two hundred years
before the children of the elements play their games
and we are done
as in dystopia
all this from your wheelchair
and your world of chaos and small quanta
while as if in mockery you are locked immobile
within that pathetic frame
yet on your arm there the hawk is wakeful
it knows that time has called
it is nervous, tethered turning
and wish o wish o wish o to be upon the wing