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enjoy thisAllison Grayhurst writing in the free 2015 PDF file chapbook: No Raft — No Ocean (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2015 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the book cover to order No Raft - No Ocean as a book at any time!

With the purity of a single intention

Allison Grayhurst

Days of history voyage low
into nations, beside graveyards.
You played with the existential architects for a while,
breathing in their deconstruction, but your laughter
languished. Straddled between crossroads,
you could not form a picture.
Days of comfort can be understood
when the crack tents with severity enough
to slice two wholes.
In your mind there are mountains
you have lost the ambition to cross, or to look up
at their venerated summits, and listen.
You have lost the cunning to cope, continents of wayward
possibilities. Look up, for the sake of past miracles
that swooned into your embrace like found love
as a perfect match
against fatalism and rising futility. Look up - out
into outerspace
and grow yourself a fierce mystic midnight.
Whitewash trails and gardens, places
where children are allowed to dig a hole in the ground,
tunnels where the earth shines copper
with forgotten buried pennies.

Look up and drop the stone of objection,
the stretching sorrows of realism.
It is divine, if you choose it to be.
It is the freedom of a fugitive, freed
of the rusted bars, equipped with appetite
and the exuberance of a gamble.
The ship is lost and an ocean is gained.
Water and water rhythms
are teaming between your toes,
salting your hair and open wounds.
From side to side, look at the glorious space around you,
then up, envisioning yourself strong-winged, safe
as a seafaring bird.

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