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Liquid Art

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Warm fluid

reaching my lips, filling my mouth

and strengthening.

I am chased and must

drink to survive, to gain a flow

that does not fit amongst all this normalcy.

It plops like an explosive on my lap

and won’t allow me to forget or regret

its pull and command.

Like a ripe peach to the parched throat, it slides down

and radiates relief to all sections of my spine.

It owns me as does the rhythm of my pulse.

It keeps me apart yet binds me as one.

It is my surrender, my glad awakening. It is my freak show,

my unhappy necessity:

              I bite, I swallow

              and then I am brave

                    once again.

 

 

 

Copyright © 2006 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “VerseWrights” June 2015

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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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