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In
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The world is bleating,
frying and re-applying
its gruesome coat
of despicable snares.
The world is walking in,
shaving down my floor with its footsteps.
I touch it like I would
a balloon. I will not allow
it to consume or alter
the course of my aging.
I will stand and translate the core of this faith
to my children. I will give them something
to lean on when the world overtakes
and the ones out there lack
even a threadbare mercy
or a glimpse of celestial grace.
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Copyright © 2006 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “The Peregrine Muse” December 2016
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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.
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