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In My Corner
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Kneel to the weather. There is a fountain up ahead,
glowing,
but no one is on my deck – no bones are dry
in my pocket. Criss-cross, betrayal in my juice cup.
Magic is for fools. Living here, my voice cut,
my pet octopus drowned. Living here
in elementary wealth – nothing but
old-world, nothing but chaos.
Will the angels sing to me? I have been waiting
on their love.
So heavy is the window I look through. Brick by brick
I count my way up. My memories belong
to another world.
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Copyright © 2006 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “The Bijou Poetry Review”, 2014
http://bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.ca/2014/05/in-my-corner.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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I don’t know how she does it – but through disparate images she nails the feeling, the testimony, the inner music of the hero’s journey-challenge upward:
“Living here
in elementary wealth – nothing but
old-world, nothing but chaos.
Will the angels sing to me? I have been waiting
on their love.”
Our galactic history-herstory inimated so often – no wonder the intensity of the soul’s anquish, shock, hope, longing and triumph.
“So heavy is the window I look through. Brick by brick
I count my way up. My memories belong
to another world.”