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cosmic expansionby@horationed

the pacific ocean is 165.2 square miles by @/horationed

midlife crisis at seventeen by @/horationed

cw // allusions to religion

on misplaced faith by @/horationed

i want you to read this poem by @/horationed

there is something about the way the sea looks this sunrise that makes me want to be loud. the waters have receded like a failing army and the exposed sand is sticky like glutinous rice. there is a tidal wave of rage rising in me and it has nowhere to go so i want it to go into the ocean. why won’t you scream, i ask, where are your storms, i want to see them tear the trees and the tents and the benches and the paths apart. i sneer at the culling complacency of reflected blue and i want it to snarl back. i want a tsunami, i want a death toll taller than these gallows of mine. there is a hurricane on the tip of my tongue and it tastes like salt and the bitterness of pesticide and i am filled with a plague. the pestilence in me rises and rises and rises and i am drowning in a mouth.

i want a storm, i want to be filled by the ocean and be pulled apart by the currents. i want to be thrown like a lover against the bedrock; let me be embraced by skeletal sailors. i would be bloody and beautiful on the outcroppings, strewn like a broken pearl necklace. i want the jagged teeth of great white sharks like hickeys on my skin. i want the plunge, i want the breathlessness, i want to bleed into the deep and let the salt cleanse the gulf of my wounds.

—when you soak an open wound in the ocean sometimes it heals and sometimes it develops into an infection by kyouka | @horationed

is it still belonging if only half can stayby@horationed

my grandfather tells me he isn’t afraid of deathby@horationed

corpse caringby@horationed

whale skeletons by @/horationed