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Four Sides

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Four sides to the silence

that ribbons my throne.

Four thieves that pry open

my secrets as night blends

with day.

One that skates my terrain, slicing and cutting

and so very cold.

One whose mouth stretches wide,

consuming my minstrel’s tale.

Another who tugs and slows my voice rejoicing.

A fourth who digs my sex out of my thighs

and beds me a eunuch.

 

But for those quad-curses are four more

fierce lights that shade all grieving with tenderness

and meaning. Four bags from a magician’s dream,

orbed in wonder and the waters that go on forever.

 

I will not complain or caress my cancer to break

apart my prize.

I will just say my tune is told, and today

my bones hurt but the food

is plenty.        

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

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.First published in “Poetry Pacific”

http://poetrypacific.blogspot.ca/2013/11/3-poems-by-allison-grayhurst.html

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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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