She

 

 

Fear is splendid

in making the body inflamed,

bloated on trepidation at the news

of many meadows burning.

 

She hurried and found a healer

inside herself, willing to go

the distance and forfeit

personal power for a greater

acquisition.

She understood the traveller and

the sit-at-homer as one in the same,

especially on a stormy day or a year of upheaval.

 

Faith is the bullseye with no point-marks gained

unless hit dead-centre, directing every focus

to only that centre.

Faith is the wave to ride to the shore,

removed from other moving sources,

like wind and arm-strokes.

 

She opened herself to fear

not denying it but seeing it

as just another entity

under the canopy, smaller

than the giving sun.

 

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Copyright © by Allison Grayhurst 2025

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Published in “Ink Pantry” April 2026

https://inkpantry.com/poetry-drawer-this-place-surrendered-she-out-by-allison-grayhurst/

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Published in “Our Poetry Archive” May 2026

https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2026/05/may-2026-v-12-n-2-issue-n0-134.html

https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2026/05/allison-grayhurst.html

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Published in “Synchronized Chaos” February 2026

https://synchchaos.com/synchronized-chaos-first-february-issue-tba/

https://synchchaos.com/poetry-from-allison-grayhurst-17/

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First published in “Poesy Place” January 2026

https://www.poesyplace.com/she-a-poem-by-allison-grayhurst

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