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by sayornis

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November 12, 2018

but here we are

California is burning my heart hurts like my lungs as they fill with smoke and somehow there is also numbness it will keep getting worse the roaring flames will eventually take everything everyt...


November 02, 2018

quicksand.

Sometimes I think this is the only honesty within me the words hiding here, poured out at inconsistent intervals my idea of who I am is changing this program is erasing so much of that numbness t...


November 01, 2018

divide

in a series of dichotomies there lies reality objects placed in a metaphysical realm I am the literal, the biologist the concrete and measurable looking for patterns and secrets a story untold w...


October 10, 2018

virgo

Hi I am alive and OK I guess I am a month and a half into grad school and it has awakened my soul and also pushed me to limits I didn’t even know I had I don’t have time to write right now but he...


June 30, 2018

hyaline

a slow dance inhaling a golden breath of sunshine your eyes are too much for me so many words unsaid so little time you are all the men I had loved the sparkling future almost forgotten find me i...


June 17, 2018

6/17/18

I am not ok I do not know who to tell I reached out to friends but the time has passed too long this is my fault


June 15, 2018

coming home

given some time for reflection I realize that I have been buying clothes/makeup because I am lonely because if I dress a certain way, do my make-up a certain way magically I will be happy and fee...


May 21, 2018

hands down

got in a plane and away we went landed at london heathrow to no internet, to English beaches where the sun sets in the wrong place greenness that feels refreshing and alive compared to my brown...


April 26, 2018

lost in the light

when you hold everything in it comes in comes bubbling like an angry frothy sea and here I am standing on the edge of a cliff watching my heart my fear splash against the rocks foam churning wa...


April 11, 2018

hey mami

do you ever wonder if those instincts you get about someone when they say something and you feel like you know also what they are not saying even when you don’t know them all that well maybe it i...


March 23, 2018

It's been a while

For a multitude of reasons I guess I have been lost in a sea of my own thoughts tangled paralyzed almost Open Diary let me re-download my old entries and it was like a time capsule for my earl...


January 05, 2018

journey

think think think I see words filling every crevice slipping down the side of my cup but there is nothing between black curving letters I hear you gasping for air between breaths I feel nothing...


November 07, 2017

Navajo

this song makes me think of santa fe but I am here emptiness can be so loud like a thundering vacuum my dissatisfaction with myself feels like 1000 pounds the dry air makes it hard to catch my b...


November 01, 2017

tadow

I don’t think I really mentioned here the bullying I got at my old job I glazed over it it was really bad I had a coworker threaten to leave me bleeding on the side of a mountain I was the but of...


October 16, 2017

fire

I went to the mountains to escape and for a moment, there it was, a breath of fresh air and then the smoke settled around us lungs seizing, wheezing and cloudy and that beauty we had sought pure...


October 09, 2017

10/4/14

and I stood next to a silent sea in solitary darkness waves crashing in smoothness but maybe tomorrow they will be loud and rough in sunlight and the whites of the waves will remind me of the w...


July 21, 2017

sit next to me

I keep having dreams where my bf won’t listen to me and I get angry this probably directly relates to my life I am a difficult person sometimes when I struggle I tighten into a ball and I won’t l...


June 30, 2017

los angeles, I'm yours

salty skin tastes like the fire burning hold me tight I am falling my heart was the beginning and not the end do you feel it pounding so as the sun beats us down melting me into nothing silver ...


June 09, 2017

6/9/17

And she was an angel you once knew in strong hands feathery heartbeats soft and warm fluttering away and she is gone perfect and white whispering all you once knew gasps of air on your neck


it always surprises me the way that people change as you get to know them nothing is like it’s initial impression I keep a lot of things to myself because I don’t have time to write and I can’t ...


December 08, 2015

I can't let go

of that last piece of you in my mind because I can’t bring myself to forgive you entirely I can still feel your anger burned into my mind I can still taste my own salty tears burning in the back ...


October 31, 2015

pink moon

maybe she’ll always love you As you stand side by side drunk on lust and moonlight dark eyes always hide secret thoughts ‘And you are mine’ you start to think the ocean howls mercilessly as it ...


October 16, 2015

listen

shadow, shadow you are my heart you’ve held my thumping fright shadow, shadow you are my soul shivering uncontrollably still in the night


my lies (omissions) are catching up with me I will break my own heart my body refuses to play along a series of events occurred yesterday that could only have meant one thing the walls are caving...


June 26, 2015

sisyrinchium

I had a nice birthday. People I haven’t talked to in a while wished me happy birthday. We were in malibu, beautiful calm waves, seagulls diving for fish next to surfers. People taking selfies lef...


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