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I Can’t Land

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I can’t land on these jagged places

of secondary love – voids and steep staircases and

darkness always hijacking spaces on the floor.

I can’t change the lack of water

or the narrow airwaves of hope. God

give me the final dream, let it arrive now

and bloom. I am tired of waiting, of planting

my sage and calcite, of healing only to let go.

I want to hold the beautiful fires forever, know for certain

that heaven has hatched and there is a tale to tell

out of the grey zone.

I want to be at ease in the mornings, catch

joy in my mouth, graced, no longer longing

for a place to breathe,

but to be just this person, myself –

a poet, proud.

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Copyright © 2010 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “PoetryMagazine” Fall 2011, under the title “can’t”

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“Allison Grayhurst intertwines a potent spirituality throughout her work so that each poem is not simply a statement or observation, but a revelation that demands the reader’s personal involvement. Grayhurst’s poetic genius is profound and evident. Her voice is uniquely authentic, undeniable in its dignified vulnerability as it is in its significance,” Kyp Harness, singer/songwriter, author.

“Allison Grayhurst’s poems are like cathedrals witnessing and articulating in unflinching graphic detail the gritty angst and grief of life, while taking it to rare clarity, calm and comfort. Grayhurst’s work is haunting, majestic and cleansing, often leaving one breathless in the wake of its intelligence, hope, faith and love amidst the muck of life. Many of Allison Grayhurst’s poems are simply masterpieces. Grayhurst’s poetry is a lighthouse of intelligent honour… indeed, intelligence rips through her work like white water,” Taylor Jane Green, Registered Spiritual Psychotherapist and author.

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