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Deciding

Allison Grayhurst

Deciding to lose, coming home,
speaking of love and worn-sole boots,
knowing rest as forgiveness.
Love I see is a marriage that spares no compliment
or insult, uncomfortable as a needle sometimes,
sometimes grazing, naked, uneventful, exposed
side by side.
The bluejay owns its love - a tuft of feathery charm
and a voice that shrills across the snowbanks.
                Wanting all wanting vanquished, love I see
will not tolerate averting eyes, the coveting of humming,
shining cars moving by, puts no store in the making
of breadsticks or piled-up gift certificates,
sings extreme, never nursing inner deformity’s indulgent dreams
as a balm to ease the downpour of poverty.
The love I see is worth the gathering of moths,
dark circles under my eyes, horizons and hopes
of insufficient glow.
Love I know like death, exposing the vanity of turtle-shell treasures,
of keeping dried flowers and polished plaques.
I will not cry for this world,
for love is born as a larvae emerging beetle, continuously,
is substantial as an open window, small
as the cracked-egg nourishing grace of an extended hand.

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