The Bite

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Allison Grayhurst

The Bite

It is in the bite

in the loins, born

from a deeper urgency

than the stuff outside the window.

This season is split,

it mends nothing and breaks

only that which has already been broken.

The rabid sorrow that has no voice

but lurks like a scream through

the corridors of the body.

It has been so long – the same cloud

latched to our roof, the same cry

of indignation and then pleading.

We have held out for release but the pressure

is locked and we must bear the journey.

We are left with the many devices of coping –

sure of God and nothing more.

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First published in “The Peregrine Muse” December 2016

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