Elevation: Kathryn Gillespie

01. Writer

Kathryn Gillespie


02. Theme

Elevation


03. MUSIC INSPIRATION

Death Cab for Cutie:
Transatlanticism


04. WRITING

On Topography

Never understood
maps and bright shades,
splaying forth in tree ring watercolor,
coding pages with secrets of height,
distance. And cannot understand
as layer and layer,
reads higher and higher,
blending hues as earth
kisses itself tectonic.

Trenched in valley,
you cannot teach me elevation,
altitude, like reaching hilltops,
each finger gliding softly
across weathered page
can’t speak to breeze against
grass hewn skin, sinking.