Katherine Quevedo, Author at The Hyacinth Review

Ode on Keats’s “Ode on Indolence”

Katherine Quevedo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

I Who else’s praises could, like Grecian ink, Drip precious on the page in metered form? Whose lofty dreams of indolence fail to sink Beneath the bleak insomnia of the morn? Thou, poet, trappest not the heart in verse, Nor leavest thou the reader in thy wake; Emotions freest thou in rhymèd hordes, And quenchest…

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Calypso, Riddled

Katherine Quevedo — Wed, 21 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000

My grapes glisten obediently upon trained vines, But you cannot be trained. The water channels I’ve shaped duly irrigate my cave, But your troth cannot be drained. Ambrosia and nectar have been bested by meat and wine, For you, Odysseus, my would-be slave, Resist the divine. Who’s truly captive when they captivate the captor? Go…

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Pumpkin Ash And Cypress Knees

Katherine Quevedo — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:00 +0000

First published in Boudin by The McNeese Review Bald cypress thrusts its knees in knobby little spires just above the waterline. Pumpkin ash bulges at the base of its trunk, engorged with brackish drink. By moonlight, I can almost discern the red spikes of cardinal flowers craning their necks alongside the river’s offshoot, the…

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The Devil with the Golden Hairs Earns His Sleep

Katherine Quevedo — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000

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The Bowsprit Mermaid and the Stemhead Dragon

Katherine Quevedo — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:12:00 +0000

From wooden mouths above the deep, From oaken tongues upon the swell, When figureheads arouse from sleep To greet each other’s ships, they tell The tragedy of the bowsprit mermaid and the stemhead dragon. Two sculptures clad in crisscross scales And carved into each noble prow Beheld each other through the gales And dipped with…

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The Ichthyocentaur Beyond Marginalia

Katherine Quevedo — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:00:00 +0000

originally appeared in Honeyguide Literary Magazine

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Lanterns At Dusk

Katherine Quevedo — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:00:00 +0000

originally appeared in Kingdoms in the Wild Mauve sky deepens, sending up the signal for lanterns! Teardrops with metal traceries, onion domes of candy-colored glass, paper globes like alien moons frozen in orbit, lacelike perforated brass, polyhedral or cylindrical silhouettes, crystal origami illuminated from inside. Lights hanging from strings, suspended from chains, on the hook,…

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The Fabulous, Interconnected Living Root Bridges of the Fairies

Katherine Quevedo — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000

The following piece originally appeared in the print anthology Into the Glen: Into the Light I’ve heard tell of a secret grove— a treasure trove of aerial roots of many trees conjoined like dripping candle wax, like netting, like funnel cake, stacks upon stacks of inosculations guided by the ministrations of tiny hands over years,…

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Sea Grass Supplication

Katherine Quevedo — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Sea Grass Supplication originally appeared in The Curator Magazine

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