The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/ Literary Arts Journal Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:02:25 +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 The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/ 32 32 199531397 This Very Night https://hyacinthreview.org/michael-potter-this-very-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michael-potter-this-very-night Sat, 30 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7977 Tom looked up at the white plenum tiles of the examining room as a nurse slipped a needle into his arm. He took a deep breath to counter a wave of lightheadedness and tried not to imagine his blood squirting into a clear tube.  A short time later, he sat in his doctor’s corner office,…

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]]> 7977 The Day I Remembered My Soul https://hyacinthreview.org/nolo-segundo-the-day-i-remembered-my-soul/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nolo-segundo-the-day-i-remembered-my-soul Wed, 27 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7906 When I was 24, I killed myself. I put it that bluntly because it was not an attempted suicide, a cry for help, but a decision to self-murder. Yes, it was a desperate act, a last attempt to escape what my mind feared as lifetime imprisonment in a mental asylum [they still did that back…

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]]> 7906 How Would You Grieve Me https://hyacinthreview.org/denise-tolan-how-would-you-grieve-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=denise-tolan-how-would-you-grieve-me Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7907 One day, she said, looking up at me while planting parsley on her little patch of land, one day I will simply cease to exist. Imagine that. She took her shiny, sharp shovel and stabbed at the ground.  Who will comfort you? she asked, shooing the fly circling her shoulder. Mom, her daughter yelled from…

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]]> 7907 Beneath Grandmother’s Sunflower Field https://hyacinthreview.org/lia-d-elen-beneath-grandmothers-sunflower-field/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lia-d-elen-beneath-grandmothers-sunflower-field Wed, 13 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7905 I return to the house— palms anointed by intention, to steady its posture, to lead it—if only briefly— toward a worth another might one day sanctify. The walls incline like venerable elders, their counsel worn smooth by weather. Windows veiled with memory’s ash. The back porch bends in quiet homage to the river, humming as…

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]]> 7905 approach of the magician https://hyacinthreview.org/allison-anne-approach-of-the-magician/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=allison-anne-approach-of-the-magician Wed, 06 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=8101 The post approach of the magician appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 8101 What I Took From The Tideline https://hyacinthreview.org/jackie-mcclure-what-i-took-from-the-tideline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jackie-mcclure-what-i-took-from-the-tideline Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7883 The post What I Took From The Tideline appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 7883 The Hinges on the Barn Door are Singing Again: On the Lyric Essay https://hyacinthreview.org/chila-woychik-the-hinges-on-the-barn-door-are-singing-again-on-the-lyric-essay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chila-woychik-the-hinges-on-the-barn-door-are-singing-again-on-the-lyric-essay Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7882 … the heart of the lyric essay is not reality, not nature, but the music of reality, the music of nature as conceived in the mind of the essayist—the music of beautiful untrue things, which, as Wilde says, is the proper aim of art. ~ Joey Franklin, TriQuarterly Journal, 2014 ‘Til the cows come home,…

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]]> 7882 The Law Of Resonance And Condensed Milk https://hyacinthreview.org/lia-d-elen-the-law-of-resonance-and-condensed-milk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lia-d-elen-the-law-of-resonance-and-condensed-milk Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7881 A manifold of frequency, woven from every mind that has ever parsed the world’s hidden patterns, waits by a pillar of translucent sapphire. Their hands leave trails of phosphorus in the air, a phantom mimicry of the bioluminescence at Falmouth, tracing the invisible seams where thought condenses into matter. I arrive always as if crossing…

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]]> 7881 The End Of The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/terri-pinyerd-the-end-of-the-hyacinth-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terri-pinyerd-the-end-of-the-hyacinth-review Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:12:20 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=8114 After five years, the Hyacinth Review will be put on an indefinite hiatus. As many of you know, the website has been a labor of love and the hosting costs have been paid out of my own pocket supplemented by donations from our generous readers. Unfortunately, I was recently let go from my job and…

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]]> 8114 Dryadic Dreams  https://hyacinthreview.org/clarabelle-fields-dryadic-dreams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clarabelle-fields-dryadic-dreams Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7880 The post Dryadic Dreams  appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

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