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Yes

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I will stay with you,

acknowledging the four factors that create warriors, faces

of ceramic gods. Taking in these four tides –

erratic electrical fumes;

unarguable weight; ripe stiffening; charitable maneuvering –

this potently controlled receiving, snapping us into a place

where we are never betrayed by our mutual

craving for equal depth and ideals.

    The way you look when my eyes are closed.

I see a visceral chemistry copulating

in your vascular system,

changing the consistency of your skin,

showering you with oil. These pressure points owned,

wrapped in dark honey –

a sticky rich worship and weeping – myself,

dripping against you, inside

a red whirlwind of our joined imaginations.

    We have walked rooftops, looked down and felt at home.

We worked many nights on forgiveness,

smashing snowglobe sceneries,

defusing any fantastical expectation just to be honest

when we finally awoke, to take each other blatantly,

communing as soulmates should –

peeled of barriers, wrapped freely

in fundamental urges and a desperation

for speed.

    Pliant movement – karma or coincidence?

It matters little, for it is

gathering storm. It reminds me of an unkempt appearance,

appearing weak, watery, but is really

like the hollow delicate bone of every bird

built for flight – an aimed and painted arrow,

capable of penetrating a crust of sky.

    This is our alchemy stripped of ethics.

This is us as a curry powder-and-turmeric mix, mixed,

we enhance one another’s scent and tone. Yes,

    I will stay with you, stay with our patterns locked

in perfect spiraling aberration, stay on side streets,

on wet park floors,

under our green roof, stay with you,

holding with solidarity our sunken joys,

precarious compulsions, dandelions or maggots, holding

a constant means of God-given

restoration.

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Copyright © 2012 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “Indiana Voice Journal, Issue 15” October 2015

http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2015/10/three-poems-by-allison-grayhurst-yes.html

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Published in “Rasputin” August 2015

     

http://rasputinpoetry.blogspot.ca/2015/08/allison-grayhurst-knows-that-history-is.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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Book reviews of the River is Blind paperback:

“Throughout (The River is Blind), she (Allison Grayhurst) employs 
reiterated tropes of swallowing and being consumed, spatial fullness 
and emptiness, shut- in, caverns, chasms, cavities; angels, archangels, 
blasphemy, psalms; satiation or starved. With a conceit of unrequited sex as “my desire”, nocturnal emissions, awakening in the morning, the poet lives at capacity, uninhibited, dancing,” Anne Burke, poet, regional representative for Alberta on the League of Canadian Poets’ Council, and chair of the Feminist Caucus.

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“Allison’s poetic prose is insightful, enwrapping, illuminating and brutally truthful. It probes the nature of the human spirit, relationships, spirituality and God. It is sung as the clearest song is sung within a cathedral by choir. It is whispered as faintly as a heartbroken goodbye. It is alive with the life of a thousand birds in flight within the first glint of morning sun. It is as solemn as the sad-sung ballad of a noble death. Read at your peril. You will never look at this world in quite the same way again. Your eye will instinctively search the sky for eagles and scan the dark earth for the slightest movement of smallest ant, your heart will reach for tall mountains, bathe in the most intimate of passions and in the grain and grit of our earth. Such is Allison Grayhurst. Such is her poetry. THE RIVER IS BLIND is a must-read,”  Eric M. Vogt, poet and author.

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