As Mad As Mine – Author Allison Grayhurst

By Raja's Insight on February 26, 2018 • ( 1 )

Grief is cold as the world

without a wish, riding

the waking land.

I saw the hounds trace my footsteps.

I believed in an everafter,

and the shore was my mansion to fight for.

I drove from the river onward,

looking for a season to change me.

The miracle, the terror before the miracle,

is the salty flavour of my blood.

Sudden love stinging the throat. Sudden

happiness to renew the cage of day-to-day drudgery.

I cry like a seal who has lost her pup to the killer whale.

Tomorrow is not a void

but a temple of what is held sacred today.

Everytime I answer, I lose.

But when I am holding my breath,

caressing the slit throat of all my hopes,

then and there my eyes and ears

have learned the voice of

golden heaven.

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.