Peter Grandbois (Why is he Afraid?)
Why is he afraid
To stand at the door between
Worlds, air thinning to bare threads

Like morning shifting through blue
Winter emptying the trees

Peter Grandbois (Why is he disturbed?)
Why is he disturbed?
He floats calm as a shot cork
In a fierce current

He reaches out a tired hand
Like the tide, the world draws back

Peter Grandbois (Wrote the weirdest poem?)
Wrote the weirdest poem
But like needles of cold rain
No one wants to hear

So, too, the spider floating
Tree to tree is not worshipped

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Peter Grandbois is the author of fifteen books, the most recent of which is the novel/novella pairing, Cat People and Dream Memories of the Fifty Foot Woman. He is poetry editor at Boulevard and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. You can find him at www.petergrandbois.com.