Yrsa Daley-Ward
Of Jamaican and Nigerian heritage and raised in northwest England, Yrsa Daley-Ward is a celebrated author, actor, award-winning memoirist, as well as the creator of the utter™, a poetic intelligence™ and brain wellness company.
Based in Los Angeles, she leads the bestselling Substack newsletter the utter, read weekly by tens of thousands for its lyrical reflections on creativity, attention, and survival in an overstimulated world. Her work sits at the intersection of poetry, science, and storytelling, building a new language for mental health and creative resilience. Whether on stage, on the page, or through the utter™, Yrsa is redefining what it means to use language as a technology for healing, brain regulation, and human connection.
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through and through
I tried. You tried. It didn’t work.
We went our separate ways, and no one died.
No one died, I suppose. No one died.
And now we’re years apart, and that is fine.
But no one is you. I know that, and it chills me through and through.
I know it and it wakes me up at night.
I know it in a way that bumps the hairs up on my skin.
I don't know you anymore. That’s alright.
In my dream, you say you have been waiting.
You are dressed in the jacket that you left in.
I still look the same; twenty-two, a small fire.
You press your cold lips to my skin.
We still have our northern accents.
I lay you down on the floor.
We smell like musk in the woods after the rain.
We don’t yet know what we will know.
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