Koah Baer, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:07:24 +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 Koah Baer, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Vernazza Blackout https://hyacinthreview.org/koah-baer-vernazza-blackout/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=koah-baer-vernazza-blackout Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6771 Foreign and alone, I hear the waves. Memories arrive like flotsam and refuse to leave. By moonlight, I discern their outlines. A man’s distant laughter. A red pinprick, far out on the water. Paperback Aciman and Venetian cologne: tobacco and honeysuckle. Makeshift rosaries, recalling all. Pigeons huddle beneath the corbels of a widow’s seafoam villa,…

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]]> 6771 Night Choir https://hyacinthreview.org/koah-baer-night-choir/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=koah-baer-night-choir Fri, 10 May 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6653 You’ve heard it said that to be queer in this countryis to be a nocturne played on the precipice of morning.You’re up all night, listening. God playing the gunshotsor the fireworks, your choice. So many choices, for you, for meAmerica is about choices. You get to make one or two of them.The boy in the…

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