Kendra Whitfield, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:39:57 +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 Kendra Whitfield, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 You Would Love this Poem https://hyacinthreview.org/kendra-whitfield-you-would-love-this-poem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kendra-whitfield-you-would-love-this-poem Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6741 You would love this moon Would call me long distance to look at it, Recite The Highwayman by heart Teaching me that beauty gallops Under the jewelled sky You would love this wind, Would drink gallons of tea from colorful mugs And tell me about gales that blew Clampers into the harbor and fluttered Flags…

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]]> 6741 Mo(u)rning Rites https://hyacinthreview.org/kendra-whitfield-mourning-rites/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kendra-whitfield-mourning-rites Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3372 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time… – William Shakespeare. Awaken before the rooster crows two times. Break the laws of weighted blanket gravity: Rise, hunched, from the swaddling of your sheets. Stumble. Scrub cinematic nightmares out of your hair,…

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]]> 3372 Awaken https://hyacinthreview.org/kendra-whitfield-awaken/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kendra-whitfield-awaken Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3351 Please the God-Caller within your spine: Bow to it, twist life into it with wide hips creaking. Please the God-Caller and maybe the God-Caller will please you, Old crow with jowled neck and wattled prayers for youth and night To come release you from the day. Please the God-Caller with green sparkles hung from Black…

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