Peter Grandbois is the author of fourteen books, the most recent of which is Domestic Bestiary. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is poetry editor at Boulevard and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. You can find him at www.petergrandbois.com.
Day after gray day of rain drumming Against the syntax of window panes Until you’re no longer a song you know But a humming orchard of memories Dropping from your brittle body, Blowing from room to colossal room, Up the chimney and into the spuming storm Where even the birds tend their silence And the swarm of words you fear… Read more →
is a body I hear tapping against the window a leafless body scratching against the door much larger than the bird singing in the lacing forest beyond the window all things are full of gods this body singing from the shadowed ring of trees that is this door where we were carried by the body’s music toward the moon dragging… Read more →