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Devotion
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What links
and where?
Was I always flushing with need
there are your feet
with a terrible tenderness
or tenderness unborn?
I have watched you walk
certain you will never run,
mystified by your suffering.
Was there ever a miracle great enough to touch you?
The world is madness, unsafe,
and you are captive to that tragedy
trying for an impossible life
I have imagined brighter days
I have imagined to be eternally in love
enslaved by nothing
delivered from everything
I have imagined a life unabstract.
More than flesh,
but never more.
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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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