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Happy Summer Coming

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Days of blessings –

my happy family,

a home to lay my pillow in,

a future to work toward

and a spectrum-wide love

that makes all the difficulties

hop the train and head for another town.

Finally a lifting that has taken so long,

an ease permeating floorboards, rising

to level with my nose.

Finally a breaking away from survival’s

clamped umbilical cord and a dignity

rushing in to overwrite the hardships.

Days of being satisfied, of no-more-gasping.

Days to let the arms hang relaxed

and give thanks again

for seeing us through.

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “The Peregrine Muse” July 2017

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“Allison Grayhurst intertwines a potent spirituality throughout her work so that each poem is not simply a statement or observation, but a revelation that demands the reader’s personal involvement. Grayhurst’s poetic genius is profound and evident. Her voice is uniquely authentic, undeniable in its dignified vulnerability as it is in its significance,” Kyp Harness, singer/songwriter, author.

“Allison Grayhurst’s poems are like cathedrals witnessing and articulating in unflinching graphic detail the gritty angst and grief of life, while taking it to rare clarity, calm and comfort. Grayhurst’s work is haunting, majestic and cleansing, often leaving one breathless in the wake of its intelligence, hope, faith and love amidst the muck of life. Many of Allison Grayhurst’s poems are simply masterpieces. Grayhurst’s poetry is a lighthouse of intelligent honour… indeed, intelligence rips through her work like white water,” Taylor Jane Green, Registered Spiritual Psychotherapist and author.

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