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Growing the grey

Allison Grayhurst

Splendor is stolen.
I call high but am dammed
to the form of a lesser magic.
In captivity it is harder to communicate
the truth, to find the altar of happiness.
All things I have are stolen.
From a ship dismounted, I landed
and stole. I am always stealing and losing
God, cracking the cup of my direction.
Bodies exist to understand the brutality of loneliness,
to yield first to breath, then to sex and then to death.
When I was a candle I had the courage of a candle.
Planets I once walked upon are dead. Could I have been a child,
and now I am not? How is it possible to give up
the solidity of imagination?
Take me back through the ice-cross
in the skylight, into the glow,
sniffing cool blue-green spores - smells purer than spin.
Caves and stars, coloured covered canvases
melting into unison. Alchemy as I walked, dissolving
into the flesh of constant spring, as I walked,
sprouting the nuclei of many mountains.

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