Daniela Sow, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:59:05 +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 Daniela Sow, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 On the first day of spring, you became light, https://hyacinthreview.org/daniela-sow-on-the-first-day-of-spring-you-became-light/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daniela-sow-on-the-first-day-of-spring-you-became-light Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3678 free from body and pulse. You suffered no longer— no more collapsing lungs, yellowing nails and tongue, sunken cheeks. The furnace fires up around your withering body, brittle bones now ash. In the car, I carry the box of you, small, compact, grasping you in my lap, oh, how once I was a child in…

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