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enjoy this writing from Allison Grayhurst in the free 2015 chapbook: Make the Wind (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2016 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the book cover spread to order Make the Wind as a book at any time!

Entering the organic spa-spot

Allison Grayhurst

The torture I held as you tiptoed across
my organ cells and hair follicles.
I held even more by holding insanity’s
delicate wafer on your conveyor belt.
I love this end the most, smelling charcoal and
the rotted-tooth breath of what once was.
I loved saying goodbye to your rigid palm-reading,
your depleting predictability and the adult-slot
I’ve had to slot my mind into
to manage you as well
as I did. And I did. I received gift baskets,
praise and even a place
on the roster. I know it was for something but even so,
it was nothing I can use in my journey among the
aspen shavings, the inter-sloping muse
that highjacks my better self
and gives it free play.
Even so, good to know, I am capable.
So much better though,
to say goodbye, bow out and join ranks with the sages.
So much weight to shed,
the load of metal-brick responsibilities,
keeping tabs, counting scores.
So much that wants to be forgotten,
go unnoticed and lose the symbiotic skills of your success.
Mercy is mine, understand that.
I am not settled, but embarking.
I am saying goodbye and it is easeful,
a release that arrives as completion.

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