Lisa Romano Licht, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:37 +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 Lisa Romano Licht, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Prelude To Night https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-romano-licht-prelude-to-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-romano-licht-prelude-to-night Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6710 Bite by bite, shadows swallow another day framed in an octagon of window over my front door White sky, smudged slate clouds, overhang painterly layers of bruised violet, salmon, flame orange But it’s the crowd of trees that chant as I pass the stairs— starved scarecrows silhouetted in a frozen dance— troubling me like an…

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]]> 6710 We Were All Already There https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-romano-licht-we-were-all-already-there/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-romano-licht-we-were-all-already-there Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6628 The post We Were All Already There appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 6628 Liberated https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-romano-licht-liberated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-romano-licht-liberated Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4891 The following piece was previously published by The Westchester Review Twenty-seven and hog-tied by the wrong love, I break free. Friends (having weddings, having babies) forget to catch me as I fall backwards, too busy asking each other: what is she waiting for? My grandmother hears my story; our space of fifty years compressed, an…

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