Common Dream, 1991, Edge Unlimited; ISBN-10: 0969542313; ISBN-13: 978-0969542315
(cover illustration © by Diane Barbarash)
Review of Common Dream
“Allison Grayhurst’s Common Dream is a massive book by a talented and enthusiastic young writer, with a feel for descriptive, meaningful verse. Philosophical and very deep,” Paul Rance, editor of Eastern Rainbow, U.K., spring 1993.
Links to poems:
Nocturnal Souls
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/12/nocturnal-souls/
Kaita
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/11/kaita/
Sister
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/10/sister/
The Man and The Snake
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/09/the-man-and-the-snake/
When He Rides
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/08/when-he-rides/
Paper Man
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/07/paper-man/
The Tongue
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/06/the-tongue/
Lost in a Garden
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/05/lost-in-a-garden/
Swan’s Neck
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/04/swans-neck/
Colour of Earth
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2018/05/03/colour-of-earth/
The Loyal Unknown
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/25/the-loyal-unknown/
Looking in
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/22/looking-in/
When The City Speaks
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/22/when-the-city-speaks/
Seasick
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/26/seasick/
How The Sky Came
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/25/how-the-sky-came/
Fish Hook
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/03/fish-hook/
Love’s Atmosphere
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/01/loves-atmosphere/
Lost Night
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/30/lost-night/
Solider Boy
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/28/solider-boy/
Blue World
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/27/blue-world/
If You Wait . . .
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/26/if-you-wait/
At The End
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/25/at-the-end/
My Tiger Lilly
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/18/my-tiger-lilly/
Fisherman
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/03/fisherman/
Old Goriot
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/02/old-goriot/
After Love . . .
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/31/after-love/
How We Live
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/23/how-we-live/
In Waiting
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/17/in-waiting/
The Flower’s Womb
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/30/the-flowers-womb/
So long and lucky
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/29/so-long-and-lucky/
Lost
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/28/lost/
When He Left You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/19/when-he-left-you/
The one good thing to make good all things
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/18/the-one-good-thing-to-make-good-all-things/
Anticipation
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/17/anticipation/
Beggar Island
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/16/beggar-island/
Chinaglass Smile
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/15/chinaglass-smile/
Green Is This Day
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/13/green-is-this-day/
Wax Museum
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/24/wax-museum-2/
I Will Run
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/10/03/i-will-run-2/
Here, Inside Us All
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/21/here-inside-us-all/
As We Live
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/20/as-we-live/
Sculptor
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/19/sculptor/
Newyears
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/18/newyears/
Broken Limb
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/16/broken-limb/
The Boy
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/27/the-boy/
Under Sheets
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/21/under-sheets/
Somewhere Falling
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/18/somewhere-falling/
Crow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/17/crow-2/
What Saves?
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/08/26/what-saves/
Truth Givers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/10/06/truth-givers/
Stage Fighter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/09/28/stage-fighter/