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At Fifteen Months

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She has learned to walk and sing.

She stares out from her

calm eyes, watching the other

children move to and fro.

When music arrives, her

whole body starts keeping the

rhythm, bound to it like a bird

is bound to the wind.

When she laughs, all the world’s brightness

fills her mouth and resides there.

When she cries, it splits my heart.

Gentle and solid, she balances beautifully

her warmth and will, like a child sent

from the throes of a living mercy,

like a long-held hope weighing

sweetly in my arms.

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Copyright © 2002 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Indie Poets Indeed” November 2015

http://indiepoetsindeed.blogspot.ca/2015/11/at-fifteen-months-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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