Chain

Chain

 

 

The chain is cracked, only

a small tug will break it

and the wall will let down its curtain,

the leach will release its hold, find

a new host or none at all.

 

I empty my heat on the bed

toss with disorder, too slow on my feet.

But even so, I am carving a future

I can get behind, lift myself onto a plateau

that has many plateaus above it, sure of my growing

strength. It is possible to keep my internal

promises, not like before when the dirty current

rippled through me like a disease,

threatening, consuming

my substance and storages.

 

Can I say the chain is rusted,

dissolving, no access

to its binding power?

I go for walks. I am grateful

for the open door, one step

forward.

 

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Copyright © 2022 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Ink Pantry” June 2022

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Published in “Poets’ Espresso Review, Rings of the Moon, Volume 14 Issue 5” August 2023

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I have been born

 

I have been born

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a thousand times over,

flaked into existence by

force, by will and by desire.

I have had my days

under the siege of physical limitations,

of bloodlines burned and bloodlines

mended. There is no more

time for this rotating scheme,

no space for waiting

or for continuing. I stop here. Unplugging the

flow, breathing only because

I want to, because

this skin that is mine is

the last skin I will ever claim

as the landscapes I drop, drop, then

drop me.

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Copyright © 2015 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine” February 2016

 

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Block and embrace the energy action,

circular, the fastest stroke of curved precision.

Bend to grow strong and final as a setting sun

seems to be.

Above all else, wait for the promise to gain

momentum, height, far from where

the common acceptance will allow.

Wait for the baptism, the tenth time around, baptism

into deeper layers of valley rhythms – heaven is in these depths.

Fulfilment and freedom comes better under the weight of

spiritual obligation to God.

       To God:

I climb close to you. I find you outside

of my lineage, including my walking and my

destination. I know you now as a solid

certainty. I love you though I am still

close to breaking, close to you,

permanently placed on the threshold

where all things begin and all things end.

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Published in “Aji Magazine, Issue 4” Spring 2016

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“Grayhurst’s poetry is a translucent, ethereal dream in which words push through the fog, always searching, struggling, and reaching for the powerful soul at its heart. Her work is vibrant and shockingly original,” Beach Holme Publishers.

“Allison’s poetic prose is insightful, enwrapping, illuminating and brutally truthful. It probes the nature of the human spirit, relationships, spirituality and God. It is sung as the clearest song is sung within a cathedral by choir. It is whispered as faintly as a heartbroken goodbye. It is alive with the life of a thousand birds in flight within the first glint of morning sun. It is as solemn as the sad-sung ballad of a noble death. Read at your peril. You will never look at this world in quite the same way again. Your eye will instinctively search the sky for eagles and scan the dark earth for the slightest movement of smallest ant, your heart will reach for tall mountains, bathe in the most intimate of passions and in the grain and grit of our earth. Such is Allison Grayhurst. Such is her poetry,”  Eric M. Vogt, poet and author.

“Grayhurst is a great Canadian poet. All of Allison Grayhurst’s poetry is original, sometimes startling, and more often than not, powerful. Anyone who loves modern poetry that does not follow the common path will find Grayhurst complex, insightful, and as good a poet as anyone writing in the world today. Grayhurst’s poetry volumes are highly, highly recommended,” Tom Davis, poet, novelist and educator.
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