Stanzaic Stylings

If Not For You If not for you I would be a happy man If not for you I would be a sad man That is the arc of love I walk along It is not your fault It is not my fault The fault lies in the stars and in the composition of love When caught up in the eddy of love I lose my oars and rudders   And flow along the crimson river to its source And back again over rapids and angelic pools I am not captains of my charts I am the wind blowing against rock and silk If not for love I would not be human If not for you I would not exist BIO: Grant Guy is a Winnipeg, Canada, poet, writer and playwright. His poems and short stories have been published in Canada and Internationally. 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 an adaptation of Paradise Lost and the Grand Inquisitor. He was the 2004 recipient of the Manitoba Arts Council’s 2004 Award of Distinction and the 2017 re...

1875 Riding across the invisible line  That divided Alberta from Montana She sat high in the saddle  She looked out upon the spreading world in front of her The view was fine.  She knew the world could not remain the way it was.  High in the saddle she was changing the world.  Every other woman who had and  Were going to ride high in the saddle Or broke the earth with an oxen pulled plow  Would change the world.You  Fom the front jack of the collection of short stores The Naked City by Sterling Silliphant - where a crime of violence and an act of infinite tenderness can occur seconds apart . . . In many respects that is what I am attempting to do with my poems and stories. I am interested in our individual humanity in a harsh and sometimes comical environ. Bio: Grant Guy is a Winnipeg, Canada, poet, writer and playwright. He was the artistic director of Adhere + Deny for 16 years. His poems and w...