Allison Grayhurst

They Took

They took away

the long and leisurely shave.

They took the dark and sensuous hood

and peeled it away

to shadeless bold colours –

everything bright and nothing

integrated.

They took the comforting depth

and put in its place a bad commercial.

They took the swelling stars.


Allison Grayhurst's poems have been published in The Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, Wascana Review, Poetry Nottingham International, The Cape Rock, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, White Wall Review, and elsewhere. Her work was also included in the Insomniac Press anthology Written In The Skin. Recent and forthcoming work in  Fogged Clarity, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Decanto, Indigo Rising and Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine.  She lives in Toronto with her husband, two children, two cats, and a dog. 


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