Magdalena Harlow, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:57:17 +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 Magdalena Harlow, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 St. Agnes https://hyacinthreview.org/magdalena-harlow-st-agnes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magdalena-harlow-st-agnes Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3662 Was led out and bound to a stake, but the bundle of wood would not burn, or the flames parted away from her, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and beheaded her, or, in some other texts, stabbed her in the throat.

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]]> 3662 Magdalena: Portrait of a Damned Woman https://hyacinthreview.org/magdalena-harlow-magdalena-portrait-of-a-damned-woman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magdalena-harlow-magdalena-portrait-of-a-damned-woman Wed, 17 Aug 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3114 Faced with a mirror, It seems that my Adam’s apple has refused to blossom. I’ve been absolved of the Sins of Man, But not absolved of being a Man. O Mary, my Mother, You must now kneel At the foot of all the Crucifixes Of your banned children. Because to be a Mother of Women,…

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