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Six Months Pregnant

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Thud, thud

my body burns

to stretch and hold your

growing form.

Kick and twist, you within

having no shadow, only

the liquid darkness that is your

right, your atmosphere of rich

undeniable movement and depth.

Soon you will breathe a new force

into this family, and we three will

sing at your bedside –

little boy, welcome, grower

of dreams.

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

 

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First published in “Stone Face Literary Zine”, November 2015 

http://stonefacelitpage.blogspot.ca/2015/11/six-months-pregnant-poem-by-allison.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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