Typewriter Series #2841 by Tyler Knott Gregson*Psst, wanna hear...

Typewriter Series #2841 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.*

Some spin earth, brown and raw
into cup, into bowl and vase,
shape it into statue
into bust of bronze.
Some mix color, match it
to sky or sea, purple of
plum or the orange of
sunrise, so bright its alive,
some paint and in swirl
bring life.  
Some open mouths
and melody drips like honey
from a tongue built
to give shape to sorrow,
or joy, to fill a room with sound
and know the ways
to raise skin in shiver
and awe.  

I sit, and in between long
glances out tall windows,
write short nothings
that won’t stop clouding
my mind.  I rain, and rain,
and only when the storm has
passed, rise
and smell the air.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-