Cocoon

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Allison Grayhurst

Cocoon

We spent the day in our cocoon,

away from the tricks and trades of

worldly mayhem. Just us and the rain

outside, blanketing us in rich privacy.

There was dancing and dreaming and summer

ahead with promises of keeping the poltergeist crowd

in a cloud over there, menacing but never reaching

the burn on our brows or our gathering intimacy.

There was the breathing in, the strengthening of our truth.

There was daylight plastering our walls

with a hope we haven’t seen for years.

There were paper airplanes and charades, falling asleep

in each other’s arms . . .

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First published in “Synchronized Chaos April 2017: Sacred Mysteries”

“Her (Allison Grayhurst’s) pieces (poetry) have a tribal and timeless feeling, reminiscent of the Biblical commentary in Ecclesiastes,” Cristina Deptula, editor of Synchronized Chaos.

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