The Stone-Frame by Author Allison Grayhurst

By Raja's Insight on October 19, 2016 • ( 2 )

The stone-frame sings

my threshold, sings my

heart’s futility. It is

so hard a cage it makes

my knuckles crack, it breaks

my bones from too much leaping.

The stone-frame wishes to be my womb, but

could never be a comforting hovel,

or resting ground away from

world-wind and flame.

The stone-frame maims my voice

from protesting, strikes a match

to my endurance and holds me in

its damp, dusty dorm.

The stone-frame lets me dream of miles

away from its door, but never lets more

than my imagination go wandering.

The stone-frame is my perception trapped

in faithless monotony, is my coward smile

that fears the chaos outside

its grey, unchanging walls.

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.