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Allison Grayhurst
CANADA
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Allison Grayhurst is a member of the League of Canadian
Poets. Twice
nominated for Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” 2015,
she
has over 685 poems published in more than 325 international
journals and anthologies. Her book Somewhere
Falling was
published by Beach Holme Publishers in 1995. Since then she
has published eleven other books of poetry and six
collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Prior to the
publication of
Somewhere Falling she
had a poetry book published, Common
Dream,
and four chapbooks published by The Plowman. Her poetry
chapbook The
River is Blind was
published by Ottawa publisher above/ground
press in December
2012. In 2014 her chapbook Surrogate
Dharma was
published by Kind of a Hurricane Press, Barometric Pressures
Author Series in October 2014. More recently, she has a
chapbook Currents pending
publication this Fall with Pink.Girl.Ink.
Press. She
lives in Toronto with her family. She also sculpts, working
with clay; www.allisongrayhurst.com |
Green Haven and You
I dream this early morning of
you,
trading
all you own for love.
Birds walk on water, cooing
the river
still.
Two bones
lie buried beside the bank,
grey with decay, anonymous
as each fallen red-vein leaf.
I
walk to your favourite rock
still cold from night. There
are
ten stars in the sky
visible
as ten snowy owls
undone by dawn.
I
dream of you across the vaulted miles.
You live inside my forming
smile and in
the
colours flooding the horizon, in
the almost-zenith sun,
advancing.
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