creative nonfiction Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/creative-nonfiction/ Literary Arts Journal Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:42:54 +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 creative nonfiction Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/creative-nonfiction/ 32 32 199531397 None The Wiser https://hyacinthreview.org/melanie-chartoff-none-the-wiser/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=melanie-chartoff-none-the-wiser Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4010        I felt it happen gradually over the last few weeks. A change in momentum, a pause at a precipice. I noticed during the fading of summer into autumn, I slipped past the adolescence of my senescence and began to enter a home stretch, a third act.          This merits a halt to contemplate, to mark the…

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]]> 4010 To Fully Bloom https://hyacinthreview.org/sarah-beth-gerbers-to-fully-bloom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sarah-beth-gerbers-to-fully-bloom Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=2695 The following piece touches on the topics of miscarriage and grief. The June sun was high with days long and bright, but from my point of view it was as if all the shades had been pulled down tight. The outside light was denied permission to enter by the thick, confusing darkness enveloping my heart.…

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]]> 2695 Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum, Ramsoms) https://hyacinthreview.org/roberta-marshall-wild-garlic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roberta-marshall-wild-garlic Sun, 08 May 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=2519 All that strange silent spring last year I smelt wild garlic. It grew under the trees and perfumed my garden with its pungency. It spread on the wooded riverbanks where I went for my daily walk. I breathed its savoury scent as I dodged other walkers and their dogs on the shady paths, it even…

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]]> 2519 The Garden’s Postscript https://hyacinthreview.org/rachel-lauto-the-gardens-postscript/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rachel-lauto-the-gardens-postscript Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=2331 Winter, they say, is a season of sleep. Most of nature has put away her baubles, her flowers, her fruits, her pretty things; has turned over, stretched, yawned, nestled her mossy head into the crook of her arm, and fallen into the long slumber of frosts and timid daylight. Throughout 2021,  I visited the botanical…

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]]> 2331 Send My Roots Rain https://hyacinthreview.org/carmela-pinto-mcintire-send-my-roots-rain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carmela-pinto-mcintire-send-my-roots-rain Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:23:56 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=2083     When we decided to move full time to Grand Rapids from Miami, people in both locations scratched their heads. “Aren’t you moving in the wrong direction?” My short answer: “I’d rather have snow than hurricanes.” True, but far too brief to convey the enormity of the move, the unexpected feelings it evoked.     The…

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