JP Relph, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:56:07 +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 JP Relph, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Sliver https://hyacinthreview.org/jp-relph-sliver/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jp-relph-sliver Wed, 06 Apr 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=2335 March The pyres burn all day, smoke greying out the sun. We walk through the sooty veils, our grimy faces cut in half by scarves. We are masked reapers. We cut what was once alive and feed it to the flames. Fire-smoke smells acrid, diseased, but the masks are to protect against the Rust. Breathed…

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