The Hour is Enough

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If open window—

Listen to holes

Beneath the rain
If closed door—

Enter the wound

As one enters a dream

Unseen            Invisible

To yourself
The who you are

welling into language

of flowers
The world you feel in your ribs

an echo

beneath the surface
of breath
 

Forget where you began
The wind moves over the meadow
The house you live in broke loose
The sky will not heal

This ruined garden

What happens next–

Isn’t real

Peter Grandbois is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is The Three-Legged World (published by Etruscan Press as Triptych with books by poets James McCorkle and Robert Miltner, 2020). His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in over one hundred journals. His plays have been nominated for several New York Innovative Theatre Awards and 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.

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