“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 Copy Share Image
“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,… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“did I mention my first kiss was extracted by someone who never should have been that lucky?” — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“[...] Pacing from room to room and in each window a different version of a framed woman unable to rest, set against a sky… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart, you lose twice.” — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder. You should give up.” — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“[...] what doesn't begin with love and death and end in loneliness?” — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“When it's this windy doesn't it seem impossible to grow old?” — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“Remember the year I stopped eating apples? Remember the summer I kept bringing home abandoned chairs? A lucid Vincent wrote to his brother: I… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“The Gauze of Flowers, A Love Poem” Remember when we couldn’t name it because it was a meadow wild with tulips, both bright as… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“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,… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“O my Love sent me a lusty list, Did not compare me to a summer's day Wrote not the beauty of mine eyes But… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image