The Road Has Chosen

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Allison Grayhurst

The Road Has Chosen

I hear the whisper of change

rush around my bones.

I am called out of the personal

into the deep breath of release.

In my home a child’s wonder is uncovered

and the rich lips of love are wide open.

I hold my cup and hold it out

to taste the river of freedom.

I swing around but the bird has vanished

and the sky is shaped like a long-suffering beast.

I am stepping on the skirt of yesterday.

The thread I cling to is thinning,

and yet I am suspended and still, the summer

presses on.

On the last day of this ghostly month

I will draw breath like the fox let loose

from its trap. I will be breaking the tide,

sinking no more near the frozen pine.

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.First published in “Rocket Boy Poetry Page” November 2015

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http://rocketboylit.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-road-has-chosen-poem-by-allison.html

.Published in “Dark Blooms Literary Zine” November 2015

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http://darkbloomspoetry.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-road-has-chosen-poem-by-allison.html

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“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.