Just as a picture can say a thousand words meaning a thousand different things to a thousand different people there is a kind of magic hidden in the ability to fill the intentional gaps left behind by the presence of certain words. These gaps: this silence, is intentional just as line breaks in poetry or pauses in conversation can have purposeful meaning. The structure of all of Tyler Knott Gregson’s poems begin with anonymity but not in the sense of no one, in the sense of everyone, in the sense of universality. There is a lovely familiarity in the space, space that you can fill up with your own memories thoughts and emotions.

Li-Young Lee said, "To inflect the inner silence, to give it body, that's all we're doing. You use the voice to make the silence present. The real subject in poetry isn't the voice. The real subject is silence. It's like in architecture, where the medium is not really stone or metal, but space."

The first poem, written on best western notepad talks of the desire to build bridges, which was probably fueled by some inspiring life experience, a positive event. Knott Gregson does not go on to explain the story or the situation in which these feelings were inspired, but this leaves room for the reader to fill in the gaps. The poem goes on to write, “while others it’s all you can do to not jump off of them”, showing the drastic change in emotion that happen to most on a day to day basis. One second you want to take on the world and the next it can be all you can do to hold on.

The second poem directly relates to the silence, the lacking, and whether orn ot this is what he intended it to be. The way he feels about whatever silence he is speaking of explicitly relates to how his poetry can be interpreted. It may not be his goal for this poem to come across in this particular way but upon reading it, the similarities were obvious. All of his poems are short, broad, and somewhat transparent in that they leave room for imagination and recall in the mind of the reader. When stumbling across his poetry as many do, the reader fills in the blanks. It is what this brief poem brought you back to, the moment that was recalled, where the largest impression is made.

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