Poetry by Grant Guy

​Falling Out of Love
 

Falling out of love is easy
When you are pushed
 
Love expands and contracts 
In a battle between
     Our head
     Our heart
     Our genitils
 
One talks one way
Another an other way
And the third
     It muddles everything up
 
Falling in love is easy
When you are pushed
 
The head   the heart   the genitals
Speak as one voice
Until the head    the heart    the genitals
Come to their senses
 
     The head
     The heart
     The genitals
 



a breath
 
a breath opened paths outside of herself
a breath pointed the way to a wider world
that could be hers   yes hers  
& she took it   not as a thing   but of something
beyond all of us   something outside of herself
 
us
 
she knew it was not the earth she could take
the earth owned itself   but shared with her
shared with her    not a thing    but something
something ethereal & something real
something inhaled with our breath
 
the holiness of the universe
holy like birth    sex    & death
 
she opened herself like a coat
& all things opened with her
 
& us

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Bio: Grant Guy is a Winnipeg, Canada, poet, writer and playwright. Former artistic director of Adhere + Deny. His poems, short stories, essays and art criticism have been published in Canada, the United States, Wales, India and England. He has three books published: Open Fragments (Lives of Dogs), On the Bright Side of Down and Bus Stop Bus Stop (Red Dashboard). His plays include A.J. Loves B.B., Song for Simone and an adaptation of Paradise Lost and the Grand Inquisitor. He was the 2004 recipient of the MAC’s 2004 Award of Distinction and the 2017 recipient of the WAC’s Making A Difference Award.

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