Carol Taylor Was, Author at The Hyacinth Review

Cento for the Poet

Carol Taylor Was — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nothing I’ve done seems to matter…I wanted to do more in this life, not the elusive prizes, but poems that astonish. — Barbara Crooker, from “Melancholia” Who else would have celebrated oxygen cascading down our throats when speaking about the glories of breath, or called on God of the ginkgo trees and God…

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After Reading Sy Montgomery’s Soul of an Octopus

Carol Taylor Was — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Thoughts of Athena, Octavia, and Kali, giant Pacific octopusus, swirl in my head as I stand in my kitchen cutting vegetables for a winter soup. What if evolution had taken a different turn? Instead of two arms, I might have eight tentacles covered with suction cups, little brains inside each appendage. How quickly I’d chop…

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Dreaming Of Becoming Octopus

Carol Taylor Was — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:00:00 +0000

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Plymouth Ghosts

Carol Taylor Was — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 03:00:00 +0000

…they’re out there…small ghosts who never knew when enough was enough. – Lawrence Raab You don’t want to believe the stories, but can’t help thinking about them tonight—especially at two a.m.— not a soul out on Main Street, avenue glistening from an all day rain. Lampposts glowing with pale auras. There’s something about…

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