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(front cover sculpture and photo of sculpture © by Allison Grayhurst)
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Book 6
Red Thread – Black Thread
(2006, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CHQOJFW; ISBN-10: 1478244186; ISBN-13: 978-1478244189)
Links to read each poem within the book:
the sub-angels
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/24/the-sub-angels/
Far and Here
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/03/20/far-and-here/
How Like
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/09/how-like/
A Newly-Patterned Fingerprint
Happiness Approaching
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/20/17224/
A New Front Door
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/31/a-new-front-door/
Shore
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/27/shore/
We Arrive
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/07/we-arrive/
Blown
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/11/blown-2/
In Front
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/03/15/in-front/
Torn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/07/30/torn/
Ill
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/11/10/ill-2/
A thank-you-note
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/02/a-thank-you-note/
Headlock
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/10/06/headlock/
Until
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/28/until/
They Took
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/08/01/they-took/
Home II
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/29/home/
Gone Blind
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/07/gone-blind-3/
Remembering
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/05/remembering/
Threshold
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/21/threshold/
Freedom to Admit
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/08/freedom-to-admit/
An Act of Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/22/an-act-of-love/
Draw Near
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/24/draw-near-2/
What I Shine For
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/13/what-i-shine-for/
One Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/05/one-light/
The bough breaks
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/14/the-bough-breaks/
Faces of hope
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/18/faces-of-hope/
First and Only
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/01/17/first-and-only-2/
Another Level
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/14/another-level/
My Flower
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/05/my-flower/
Lost Shadow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/20/lost-shadow/
His Glimmer Escapes, Then Grows
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/04/his-glimmer-escapes-then-grows/
We Ask For Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/07/we-ask-for-light/
Insecure
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/06/insecure/
Forest Fire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/10/forest-fire/
We Hold These Persons
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/29/we-hold-these-persons/
Something to See
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/27/something-to-see/
The Bite
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/30/the-bite/
By The Days
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/31/by-the-days/
The Wind
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/28/the-wind/
Blizzard
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/08/blizzard/
A Deal
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/26/a-deal/
Wallpaper Stars
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/26/wallpaper-stars/
To Leave This Sickness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/09/to-leave-this-sickness/
Now You Know
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/03/19/now-you-know/
Liquid Art
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/04/liquid-art/
The Burn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/27/the-burn/
Pitstop
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/19/pitstop/
The Day Is Like
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/03/03/the-day-is-like/
Faith
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/20/faith/
The Luminous Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/25/the-luminous-light/
In
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/01/in/
Where Love Draws The Line
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/29/where-love-draws-the-line/
The Path Least Expected
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/10/the-path-least-expected/
Feral
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/19/feral/
I Will Not
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/11/i-will-not/
The Singular Sky
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/12/the-singular-sky/
It May Be Coming
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/13/it-may-be-coming/
Compromise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/14/compromise/
Hostage
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/15/hostage/
Our Days
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/06/13/our-days-2/
Airtight
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/02/airtight/
Susceptible Creatures
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/16/susceptible-creatures/
After this
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/03/after-this/
Promise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/04/promise-2/
A Change To Cherish
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/22/a-change-to-cherish/
Thunder To Cross
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/05/thunder-to-cross/
Gifted
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/06/gifted/
In The Thighs
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/03/21/in-the-thighs/
The Mind That Sings
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/11/the-mind-that-sings/
From Us Two
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/18/from-us-two/
The struggle of water
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/07/the-struggle-of-water/
Five Days
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/17/five-days/
Another Station
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/23/another-station/
Exhumed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/29/exhumed/
I see the light I thought I lost
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/18/i-see-the-light-i-thought-i-lost/
What I found
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/03/what-i-found/
The stone
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/08/05/the-stone/
Regret
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/06/04/regret/
Resolve
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/09/resolve/
Take This!
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/07/take-this/
Heat
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/06/06/heat/
Blind Spot
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/13/blind-spot/
Without Soul
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/08/without-soul/
Crossroads
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/06/05/crossroads/
Easter Faith
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/09/02/easter-faith/
Days that dismantle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/06/07/days-that-dismantle/
Looking Up
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/29/looking-up/
Choice.
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/28/choice/
In My Corner
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/05/12/in-my-corner/
Nothing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/27/nothing/
Trap
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/16/trap/
Let The Joy In
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/01/16/let-the-joy-in-2/
Perfect Home
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/19/perfect-home/
Tomorrow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/25/tomorrow/
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.