Jennifer Skogen, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:51:10 +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 Jennifer Skogen, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 We Are Already Starlight https://hyacinthreview.org/jennifer-skogen-we-are-already-starlight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jennifer-skogen-we-are-already-starlight Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6721 The moon has forgotten us, here, in our bed of cedar boughs. And the stars above dream heavy, fiery dreams of beginnings too long ago to matter, tonight, to those of us in love with our own shadows. Come, follow me deeper into this forest of our own making. Sunlight beget us, but darkness unspools…

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]]> 6721 The Trees are Hungry Tonight https://hyacinthreview.org/jennifer-skogen-the-trees-are-hungry-tonight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jennifer-skogen-the-trees-are-hungry-tonight Mon, 08 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6622 Their shadows hunt in packs, mouths open as wide as the sky. They’ll devour the moon, swallow the stars, chase the wind as a rabid dog chases a wolf: hunger feeding upon hunger. Night bleeding itself dry.

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