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I Sleep In The Rain

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Lead by guilt – the fire seed

that begins with planting a new house.

Figures flay over the cold windows,

charming the fury of adjustment and opening wide

the shape of good wishes and engulfing beginnings.

The birth that contains death like the death

that brings rebirth – these are things rarely told

and when told, always told as though

taken for granted. The sermon, the singing

of all that comes hard to wake us

hard and beautiful.

Human in the void, in the faith that trees know

and a snail that moves across a busy road.

Love sometimes lacks its light, but is a stronger

love when shadowed because it excavates

below smiles and kind affection. Love that is

sharp – turning the outsides in

is in the air, sleeping but visible.

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “POETiCA”

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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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