Kris Spencer, Author at The Hyacinth Review

Bound

Kris Spencer — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Books press. You’ve reminded me of that moment when as a reader I decide to go on. When I know the words will take me somewhere. Like they were ladders up against a wall. Black ink on white paper. Zipper teeth meshing the soft fabric of time occupied. I will go on with you. I…

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Reflections On A Clear Night

Kris Spencer — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors Eugene O’Neill

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The Garden

Kris Spencer — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:00:00 +0000

When she asked me what I meant I thought to fill my hands with all the beautiful plants; having things all in rows and cropped; and up. Instead, I sat down in the deep green like a cat or fallen fruit. Laid out in the flowerbed, one leg bent and my shirt all out. A…

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Ode To The Light On The Sea At High Tide

Kris Spencer — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000

After Neruda You must be a chaos, to give birth to a dancing star – Nietzsche Sandflies coming up, delicate as fishnet. The water stands fig-green in the hollows. Clouds bunch and thicken, the sea turns the blue-black of Seurat’s dog. Bending low to skim stones, we watch the light breaking on the swell, like…

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Ode To Looking Into The Shadows On Market Day

Kris Spencer — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:00:00 +0000

After Neruda The glare that stains the chapel walls and gossip’s bench, is not my light. Piped ballads that rasp, and drown the songs of summer birds in trees and cages are too bright. I like the splutter of the dark grills pushing wood smoke through the cut flowers, fresh up from the valley this…

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