Typewriter Series #2689 by Tyler Knott GregsonLet’s (funny...

Typewriter Series #2689 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Let’s (funny how an apostrophe,
some ink slash between two letters,
some tiny slanted contraction
creation can sum up two, one me
one you and the road we walked
to get to here, the sorrow stained shoes
we wore, but have since retired, the
nights we sat on the hillside together,
the nights we ran there apart,
but felt the ghosts of the missing other,
looked out over the city we knew since
youth, changed but the same,
bigger but somehow now shrunk down
to two houses on two mountainsides
filled but improperly, how it can sum
up the leather tied to tree branches
and vows spoken into the wind
and rain when no one else would
listen, sum up the hope I held
when you dropped it, the hope
I carried and kept rotating in my hands
to show you it, new and now worthy
of belief, funny how that stupid
apostrophe thinks it can sum up
a word like Us) begin.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-