How The Sky Came

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Allison Grayhurst

How The Sky Came

When I was a grain of sand,

I saw a rainbow robe

the sea – the weather passed

and turned me into

rock.

When I was a rock

dust and tears made a bed

inside of me, until

a mountain I rose.

When I was a mountain,

protecting beasts and people

from the city’s pillaged tongue,

giving them sanction

beneath my hard shawl,

a hand swept down

and destroyed my peace,

turning me into sky:

a castle for the stars.

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Published in “Poetry Pacific” November 2017

http://poetrypacific.blogspot.ca/2017/11/1-poem-by-allison-grayhurst.html

Published in “Chicago Record Magazine” June 2017

http://magazine-record.blogspot.ca/2017/06/how-sky-came-when-i-was-grainof-sand-i.html

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