Olena Kalytiak Davis Quotes & Sayings

The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls. — Olena Kalytiak Davis

I thought: please don't grow
familiar. I think I said it out loud:
Please don't let me love you
that horrible way. — Olena Kalytiak Davis

You should bury more than the dead.
You should try harder.
You should give up. — Olena Kalytiak Davis

The sky has stopped
offering you reasons to live and your heart is the rock
you threw through each window
of what's deserted you, so you turn
to the burnt out building inside you: the scaffolding
overhead, the fallen beams,
the unsound framework;


according to the blue that's printed on the inside of your arms
you have no plans, no plans
uncovered, or uncovering: the offing is emptying,


the horizon empty


now that your sanity is
a tarp or a bedsheet
in the rough hands of the wind,


now that everything is hooded
in drop cloth.


It didn't happen
overnight. Or maybe it did:


your heart, the rock;
your soul, the Gothic barn. — Olena Kalytiak Davis

did I mention my first kiss was extracted by someone who never should have been that lucky? — Olena Kalytiak Davis

When it's this windy doesn't it seem impossible
to grow old? — Olena Kalytiak Davis

Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart, you lose twice. — Olena Kalytiak Davis