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Love’s Atmosphere
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Today I tongue
your private
dimension …
Too much transparency, empty
breathing.
I feel my body like the moon,
lined by
night. The clock
leaves a shadow on the bald
wall. You claim your cross & climb
to my side, barely
making it across the covers.
I am
skin
wet, golden – your prehistoric
lover.
I whisper my worst terrors, fill your
ears with my hoodlum
artillery, and ask
if nothing else –
to be saved.
Glittering with the substance
of sorrow,
you fold my face in your
wordless
hands,
losing me there.
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Copyright © 1991 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Poetry Halifax Dartmouth – Number 42″ October 1991
Published under the pseudonym “Jocelyn Kain” aka Allison Grayhurst
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“Grayhurst’s rapturous outpouring of imagery makes her poems easily enjoyable … Like a sear the poet seeks to fathom sensual and spiritual experience through the images of a dream.” Canadian Literature
“Allison Grayhurst’s Common Dream is a massive book by a talented and enthusiastic young writer, with a feel for descriptive, meaningful verse. Philosophical and very deep,” Paul Rance, editor of Eastern Rainbow, U.K., spring 1993.
“Her poems read like the journal entries of a mystic – perhaps that what they are. They are abstract and vivid, like a dreamy manifestation of soul. This is the best way, in prose, one can describe the music which is … the poetry of Allison Grayhurst,” Blaise Wigglesworth Oh! Magazine
“Rich images and complex, shifting metaphors drive Allison Grayhurst’s poems. She focuses on sexual love and interior landscapes, widening to include the heart, eternity and all.” Next Exit
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