Tipton Poetry Journal – Spring 2021
I’ll believe you when Peter Grandbois The discredited gods of America go back to sleep and the indentured moon wanders out the window. But there they sit, staring deep into a dusk that never wanes Old men on the porch in their squandered rockers tottering back and forth to no music but the supernova of capitalist crickets imploding under its own weight, shadows folding to a singularity. The peasants have joined hands. They circle the hole. Watch now—soon they will dip their palms, bring water to trembling lips.
Peter Grandbois is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is the poetry collection The Three-Legged World, published as Triptych with books by James McCorkle and Robert Miltner (Etruscan 2020). His work has appeared in over one hundred journals, including Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Prairie Schooner. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is poetry editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. You can find him at www.petergrandbois.com.
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