As Mad As Mine

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Allison Grayhurst

As Mad As Mine

Grief is cold as the world

without a wish, riding

the waking land.

I saw the hounds trace my footsteps.

I believed in an everafter,

and the shore was my mansion to fight for.

I drove from the river onward,

looking for a season to change me.

The miracle, the terror before the miracle,

is the salty flavour of my blood.

Sudden love stinging the throat. Sudden

happiness to renew the cage of day-to-day drudgery.

I cry like a seal who has lost her pup to the killer whale.

Tomorrow is not a void

but a temple of what is held sacred today.

Everytime I answer, I lose.

But when I am holding my breath,

caressing the slit throat of all my hopes,

then and there my eyes and ears

have learned the voice of

golden heaven.

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First published in “The Muse (An International Journal of Poetry)”, 2013

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Published in “Creative Talents Unleashed” website, February 2018

https://creativetalentsunleashed.com/2018/02/26/as-mad-as-mine-author-allison-grayhurst/

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