bit of news on the radio about a girl who killed her child
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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 .
Separation
eye a sobbed
have she a hero, have she an ally ?
he takorks in Gaelic
ne'er a good sign in a man
that they should grow
not like leeks with medullary greens
wrapped tightly round
but more like wild gorlics on a rocky sharg
where each turn a separate stone
for he has plowed his tufty tubers
both sides of the garrulous river bed
o bach
she is like a salmon in a otter pool
she has no ally here for sure
she reads .. "he plays both sides one agin the other"
and of the little Fleur of Taffy-land
it looks so much like the spit of him
that in a pother unrestrained like
she strangles it and sobbing drives
to the polygark
dead baby stretchered on the car seat vinyl back
to dement herself before the law
she have separation
life and soul in every way