Kelly Burdick, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:17:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kelly Burdick, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 The Prairie https://hyacinthreview.org/kelly-burdick-the-prairie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kelly-burdick-the-prairie Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4028 Leafhopper on a leadplant: stuck to a stem thrust through dirt chafing beneath bluestem that whispers, “wildfire.” The leafhopper does not understand. I will devour the meadow, yet nymphs will still see sun. The nature of things: light licks grass, bugs crawl and sing, I devour and am consumed in return. Even without the snap…

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]]> 4028 Leaf Burning https://hyacinthreview.org/kelly-burdick-leaf-burning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kelly-burdick-leaf-burning Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3983 Together we’ve gathered them, these sheaves, like pages from Nag Hammadi’s codices, piling them, raking the scattered reams of dusty, crumpled, nut-brown oak leaves. Out of yard waste bags (that match in hue), we turn to less than legal methods. Unconcerned with smoke, I crave the scent and you yearn for the hot glow of…

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]]> 3983 What Dzierzon Saw https://hyacinthreview.org/kelly-burdick-what-dzierzon-saw/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kelly-burdick-what-dzierzon-saw Mon, 16 Jan 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3888 As he peered through hexagonal cells within the hivestack he devised, watching embryonic queens swirl in royal jelly— before Mendel’s genes and pea plants, before modern apiculture and Hyper Hyves, before Pope Pius IX declared infallible dogma— Dzierzon saw sublimity in otherness, perfection in the alien. This contrasted by his defrocking and eventual excommunication, doubting…

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