By Danielle Hanson

The sound of a river is always  
the sound of leaving. A door  
closing in a language we  
don’t know. The nightbirds  
whisper warnings in a language  
we forgot. The screams of the  
ancient ocean echo in a shell  
and we think it sounds like sleep.  
Everything is a mistranslation.  
So nature raises its voice and we  
say how soft the wind is  
in the trees, how it lulls. 

Garden Misty Morning by Janis Butler Holm

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Danielle Hanson strives to create and facilitate wonder. She is author of Fraying Edge of Sky and Ambushing Water. Her poetry was the basis for a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications, and serves on their Editorial Board. Previously, she has been Artist-in-Residence at Arts Beacon, Writer-in-Residence for Georgia Writers, and Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books. She teaches poetry at UC Irvine. You can read more about her at daniellejhanson.com.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

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