First Snow of Winter – Author Allison Grayhurst

By Raja's Insight on September 16, 2016 • ( 0 )

First Snow of Winter

First snow of winter falling.

The bed is unmade.

Rooftops are beautiful

and white.

Home is a birthday cake,

a painting etched in crimson

light. The cats are intently watching.

The sounds outside are few. One lover

is sleeping, the other breathes in

the wintry view.

Like a cleansing, like an unmarked page

or a slice of Italian bread,

the snows descend, bringing warmth

to the veins, bringing the comfort

of sweaters and knitted socks, bringing

bodies together and the year to an end.

First snow of winter falling

like another chance, like a farewell

to colours fading and flowers on the graves.

First snow of winter arriving,

its tide of working magic

caressing away the rage of the city

with its cold, immaculate embrace.

Excerpt from the book “Trial And Witness – Selected Poems”

Now Available on Amazon.com

About the Author

Allison Grayhurst is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Three of her poems have been nominated for Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” 2015, and she has over 850 poems published in more than 375 international journals and anthologies. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers in 1995. Since then she has published twelve 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 2015, her chapbook No Raft – No Ocean was published by Scars Publications. More recently, her chapbook Make the Wind was published in April 2016 by Scars Publications. She also has a chapbook Currents pending publication in 2016 with Pink.Girl.Ink. Press. She is a vegan for the animals. She lives in Toronto with her family. She also sculpts, working with clay.