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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!

...I exist!

Allison Grayhurst

Seal me up
and wash the river.
Sunny days to sing
“It is over, over!”
Frozen perfection,
alive but dying
cliffs and cupboards
waving hello
to the ruthless Earth,
plastic in the nest
I am hungry
I am whole
Facing mortality
to make something immortal,
encountering the dark part
of God’s loins - orgasmic
reckoning, not afraid to make faces,
stick out your tongue,
not denying the chaos of pain -
Fingertips unused
and brighter burns,
where are you?
Snow ploughs and stone,
no more copying, but
diving, owning the
pathway yet to be made
clear, owning the receptive
flowing-in of grace. Old grooves
removed. The bird knows this
and shouts its song.

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