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Evolution for some, not for all

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Piercing malleable opening,

a softness in the face

over ridden by cynical neglect.

Supper is almost ready, folly on

the garden steps.

Intonations speak the

underbelly layers of languages.

Puddles I deliberately

step in to know the intimacy of water,

the revival of being overpowered by the strongest

of all Earth’s elements.

Superimpose me on your raincloud.

I cry like Lazarus shedding his week-old shroud.

I stumble under the falcon’s swooping breath,

remembering myself prehistoric –

a bird before birds.

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Copyright © 2014 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Fragrance Poetry Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1” May 2015

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“Her (Allison Grayhurst’s) poetry appears visceral, not for the faint of heart, and moves forward with a dynamism, with a frenetic pulse. If you seek the truth, the physical blood and bones, then, by all means, open the world into which we were all born,” Anne Burke, poet, regional representative for Alberta on the League of Canadian Poets’ Council, and chair of the Feminist Caucus.

“What a treasure Allison Grayhurst is. Her gift? To unfold for us life at this intensity of feeling and revelation. Who knew truth and beauty could be so intertwined and so passionate?,” Taylor Jane Green BA, RIHR, CH, Registered Holistic Talk Therapist, and author of Swan Wheeler: A North American Mythology, Swan – A Planetary Mythology, and The Rise of Eros, 2014.

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