Sarah Royston, Author at The Hyacinth Review

A Hedgewise Alphabet

Sarah Royston — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000

A is the star-seed, sharp-sweet Apple, B is the shirt-snag, lip-stain Bramble, C is the Cherry, enticing as sin, D is the Daisy, entranced by the sun, E is the Elder, feast of flocks in winter, F is the Foxglove, for a Fair One’s finger, G is the Ghost Orchid, glimmer in the dell, H…

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A Traveller’s Tale

Sarah Royston — Sun, 29 May 2022 03:00:00 +0000

I But for the storm, I would never have seen her. A wild wind laid the pear-tree low, leaving a gap in the high hedge. When the sky cleared, the opening revealed a range of hills I had not seen before. They lay gentle on the horizon, as if some vagrant goddess of the track…

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On Larkbarrow Hill

Sarah Royston — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000

The furze was bright with flowers, as if earth spilled with sweetness beneath the sun’s caress. Wild horses ran on Larkbarrow Hill. I watched the swallows whirling, let the wind whip through my hair. That was where she found me, the morning that we met. Heat shimmered on the gorse and bees thronged in the…

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