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Crowned

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The large June light

is woven with the clouds

like a wind to steal away all breathing.

And on the moving Earth, lawnmowers

roar and little snails crawl across

the wet pavement.

There are no more dreams, only this

woodchip swallowed and the bright water

cared for.

The fog has shown me my substance.

I eat my plums whole and wish

for my child everything tender and alive.

I feel the breeze through the window, taking

the curves, turning me over like a patch

of rotted grass. I am now beginning to be collected,

to answer to this new name and see my past

through a fearless eye. I feel the kick

of a new vision formed and feel

the gentlest of mercies

roll down my chest like a kitten.

This is lunch, an autumn leaf waxed

and the laundry dried.

Give me birth. My body skips across the edge,

and all good things are finally waking.

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Copyright © 1997 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “Bold Monkey” October 2015

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Published in “Leaf Garden Press”

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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.