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Make the Wind
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Requiem

Allison Grayhurst

Music, waking under my shell.
With warmer faces than I can image
neighbours are gleaming with the peace gained
from daily routine. But I hear music, old,
anointing the dismal sky and the
unused loins of dull-sexed strangers.
I have nothing to dream about – not gold
engraved bands, not hope, not a hoop
for my pedigree to leap through and overcome.
I listen to music that hurts the listener with
its degutting intensity – that hurts, and that is its
reward. Listening to its crime, its deep-throat kissing
death and its making tangible each layer
of unharnessed shadow. Here,
music without pride or long-range plan, just old
as the core of a mountain and new as something
animated and beating, undulating in waves like screams
and these dreams I cannot begin to imagine. Music, glaring,
familiar, wrapping around me as though I am a virgin to
its sound. As though I have become, and I have become,
its committed mistress.



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