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This book, Outliving the Inevitable, and all of its content are the copyright © of Allison Grayhurst 2002
(front cover sculpture and photo of sculpture © by Allison Grayhurst)
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Book 4
Outliving the Inevitable
(2002, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CHBYD1W; ISBN-10: 1478220295; ISBN-13: 978-1478220299)
Links to read each poem within the book:
Overall
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/12/overall/
Releasing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/09/releasing/
The Voice We Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/13/the-voice-we-love/
Change of Address
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/20/change-of-address/
Message
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/18/message/
Because of You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/04/because-of-you/
Faltering
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/03/faltering/
Shock
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/04/shock/
On Valentine’s Day
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/03/on-valentines-day/
A New Destiny
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/21/a-new-destiny-2/
End of an Era
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/31/end-of-an-era/
The Holding On
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/03/23/the-holding-on/
I Heard
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/30/i-heard/
Mother
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/14/mother/
All Hands Down
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/15/all-hands-down/
One True Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/14/one-true-love/
Every Strand of Hair
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/15/every-strand-of-hair/
Resignation
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/15/resignation/
The Need to Stumble
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/16/the-need-to-stumble/
Outliving the Inevitable
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/24/outliving-the-inevitable/
Fear
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/20/fear/
My Little Wonder
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/08/my-little-wonder/
You who saw
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/05/you-who-saw/
The God I Follow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/20/the-god-i-follow/
The Ride
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/10/poem-published-in-full-of-crow/
On Edge
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/02/on-edge/
The Ways of Ingratitude
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/01/the-ways-of-ingratitude/
With a mother’s lips
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/05/with-a-mothers-lips/
Oasis
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/17/oasis/
Let Us Show A Tender Love . . .
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/16/let-us-show-a-tender-love/
Clothing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/02/clothing/
Difficult Neighbours
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/22/difficult-neighbours/
Spring Too
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/01/spring-too/
Finding Direction
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/02/finding-direction/
Making Amends
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/11/making-amends/
For This Colour
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/03/for-this-colour/
Days I Discover
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/12/days-i-discover/
Beyond the Grave
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/05/beyond-the-grave-2/
Stage
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/12/stage/
Sacred Beginnings
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/11/06/sacred-beginnings/
Dementia
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/14/dementia/
Enslaved
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/05/enslaved/
No Other Way
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/02/no-other-way/
The Last One
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/13/the-last-one/
Small Thing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/08/small-thing/
Tunnels
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/31/tunnels/
A Way To Survive
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/08/29/a-way-to-survive/
As Mad As Mine
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/24/as-mad-as-mine/
As We Walk
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/06/as-we-walk-3/
Her Gift
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/28/her-gift/
Birthday Vision
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/25/birthday-vision/
My Little Girl
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/19/my-little-girl/
My Body Goes
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/10/02/my-body-goes/
Child
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/05/child/
Vocation
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/30/vocation/
Other Side
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/02/19/other-side/
What We Know
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/04/what-we-know/
Fatal
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/09/fatal/
In One Swoop
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/10/in-one-swoop/
It is not new
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/06/it-is-not-new/
At Fifteen Months
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/11/at-fifteen-months/
love is love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/27/25347/
Keep On Moving
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/12/keep-on-moving/
Death is losing all limitations.
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/11/death-is-losing-all-limitations/
Funeral
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/15/funeral/
Rival
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/13/rival/
Keeping In Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/15/keeping-in-time/
Almost a Girl
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/03/almost-a-girl/
Flurries
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/14/flurries/
Otherwise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/13/otherwise/
At Last
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/16/at-last/
Bellythroes of God
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/30/bellythroes-of-god/
Ours
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/31/ours/
Traces
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/03/23/traces/
Still brimming with awe,
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/04/still-brimming-with-awe/
High Hill
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/10/high-hill/
Not Afraid
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/17/not-afraid/
Through the girdle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/21/through-the-girdle/
Morning Glory
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/04/26/morning-glory-2/
This Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/26/this-love/
Door With No Dreams
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/14/door-with-no-dreams/
In League With . . .
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/01/in-league-with/
Down The Limb
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/12/down-the-limb/
Found
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/30/found-2/
Shift
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/25/shift/
Girl
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/07/girl-2/
Call Me By Name
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/19/call-me-by-name/
Did I Dream?
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/13/did-i-dream/
Letting Go
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/18/letting-go/
In Perspective
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/15/in-perspective/
Down The Rusted Needle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/24/down-the-rusted-needle/
By This Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/30/by-this-love/
Hit The Mark
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/07/hit-the-mark/
Salvation
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/07/salvation/
Back of the book quotes
“When I read Allison Grayhurst’s poetry, I am compelled by the intensity and strength of her spirituality. Her personal experience of God drives her poetry. With honesty and vulnerability, she fleshes out the profound mystery of knowing at once both the beauty and terror of God’s love, both freedom and obedience, deep joy and sorrow, both being deeply rooted in but also apart from the world, and lastly, both life and death. Her poems undulate through these paradoxes with much feeling and often leave me breathless, shaken. Allison Grayhurst’s poems are both beautiful and difficult to behold,” Anna Mark, poet and teacher.
“A river is in Allison Grayhurst’s poems. Sometimes it rages over boulders hidden beneath rapids. Sometimes it is as calm and placid as a summer day reflecting skies so blue they are as unusual as a Stellar Jay’s wings. Sometimes it is as unpredictable as the rhythm of clouds gathering before a storm. Made up of words, emotions, thoughts, thoughts crystallized into ideas, this river, like most rivers, is unforgettable. One poem cascades after another into a flood of poetry. As in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Allison Grayhurst’s work can be dense with meanings hidden beneath the flowing surface of words. The emotions in her poems sear with the power of Sylvia Plath. One layer reflects light over another layer of thought and emotion that leads to yet another layer. This is as serious a poet as is writing poetry today. For those adventurous enough to venture into a river wild, deep, calm, beautiful, shadowed, light, filled with moods and emotions of both an inner and the earth’s landscape, then this is a journey worth taking. It leads to experiences that have the texture and substance of life,” Thomas Davis, poet, educator, scholar, playwright, and novelist.