Typewriter Series #2823 by Tyler Knott Gregson*Psst, wanna hear...

Typewriter Series #2823 by Tyler Knott Gregson

*Psst, wanna hear me read these poems aloud?  Podcast is up on Spotify and iTunes and places, and the linkthing is in my bio. Subscribe, it’s gonna grow soon.*

One day, I’ll climb taller mountains, fade off
into the thin air of some forgotten place,
find peace in silence and the repetition
of some routine, sweep the same floors
over and again and understand it was never
about the dirt, at all.

I’ll swim deeper seas, rise breathless
and bursting, craving air above all things,
learn of emptiness that threatens
from the darkness below, that it’s light
near the surface of your own salvation,
that you’ll be choking when you arrive.

I will sit hungry and watch others eat,
ask not for plate or cup, but delight
in satisfaction that swells in others.

I have more to learn of this place,
of what it is to worship what deserves
worshipping, of how to be something
worth digging back up when I have
stopped, of being ashes
worth spreading into some stiff
Eastern wind.  

-Tyler Knott Gregson-