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Into the Fire
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My egg
sticks to my womb
wanting something
like a thunderbolt
My love
makes havoc in my breast
like a sinister struggle.
I am expecting him
his lost satisfaction
stretched out to annihilate my own
I am expecting him like
a flickering tongue, a goodnight kiss
in the twisted cry of his need,
folding up inside of me
expecting
a terrible after effect
My love hovers in a madman’s purgatory,
where eternity gets stuck in a single moment,
no claimed victory, no wingspread
to express his freedom
I continue in silence
expecting him…
I will never sleep again.
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Copyright © 1989 by Allison Grayhurst
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Before the Dawn was published in 1989 by The Plowman, written by Allison Grayhurst under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain.
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Published in “Medusa’s Kitchen” May 2018
http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.ca/2018/05/a-great-wind-came-rushing.html
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First published in “The Plowman: A Journal of International Poetry” 1989
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Hello, Allison! Great to see you’re still on here! Love your wordcraft…