modified the wording of Void so its ides mutated into this about
time
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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 .
Voided
the skylarks song is raised upward to the sky
the heads of corn are born into its blue days
your eyes like quarters of the world
are full of daylight
the nightingale sings its trills
the moon is rising through the single chorus
across the face of thorns it drags the scars of distant impact
from the songs of earth
the silicates dancing lithe above its vacuous crust
motion reflected back across the silent void
brilliant and provocative
hands held toward the astral skies
see in the whorls of finger tips the nebula
feet trampling the dust of ancient bones
see underfoot the face within the stone is shaped
washed by the rain of ages
shapes and faces all dissolved
skylarks sing no more
moons and comets long ago
are melted into suns