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Still

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You and I are a terracotta river

encasing the unmanageable rock.

We drink from the cyclone fire

and fill our ears with the sounds of harps

and nocturnal rejoicing.

When I am touched and my head

is under the feather then time is

fossilized and my body is the voice

that drives me down the curve,

wide enough for an astounding fulfillment.

When I touch the core of your bones

and join the urgency of your kisses

with my own, then we are lured

from our daily plots and cast-out dreams,

until flooded and found by the golden synergy

of our married tongue.

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “The Write Room”, 2014

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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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