Andrea Gerada, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:29:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Andrea Gerada, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 september monsoon, flower picking https://hyacinthreview.org/andrea-gerada-september-monsoon-flower-picking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrea-gerada-september-monsoon-flower-picking Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3998 While the rest of the world turned orange Our autumns came tropical. Urban box of scorch, thunder with bated breath. It was the year that monsoon season overstayed its welcome, a July staple Worming around September. I didn’t mind that we trudged outdoors with umbrellas that smelled of juice, condensed-milk tins for flower-picking, hearty appetites.…

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]]> 3998 love, preserved https://hyacinthreview.org/andrea-gerada-love-preserved/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrea-gerada-love-preserved Fri, 10 Feb 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3918 Here’s what I eat in your absence: meals which taste like orange peels and bitter rinds wild fruit overripe with the stink of fat flavor that hangs at the side of your cheek when the myth of love goes sour Here’s the topography of my tongue, in case you forget: meetings gone south, packed suitcase,…

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