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The Vision

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Everglade, a line on the wall.

The vision flares up and then it sticks –

for mercy and grace surround it as it feeds

then leaves it to chart its own road.

A baby’s belly. Dried food on a shirt.

The vision knows its worth, but is chewed

to crumbs by survival’s demands and by faith

that falls when it is called to risk everything.

The vision is fuelled by love as people hurry by

with hopes of security

which mean nothing at death.

I am out of the whale, into the ocean.

The fly in the corner never had its say.

The vision is God in my bloodstream.

It takes the last morsel with promises

of returning the soul completed,

blanketed in much more than antiseptic hearsay

and convention.

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “In Between Hangovers”, March 2017 

The Vision by Allison Grayhurst

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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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