Danielle Hanson received her MFA from Arizona State University and now
lives in Atlanta, GA. Formerly the poetry editor of Hayden's Ferry Review, she currently serves as managing editor/assistant editor of Carriage House Review. Her work has appeared in Poetry Miscellany, Hiram Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, The Lucid Stone, Willow Springs, The Nebraska Review, Cimarron Review, Flyway, Roanoke Review, The Homestead Review, The English Journal, Poet Lore, Clackamas Literary Review, Mudfish, Asheville Poetry Review, and Sulphur River Literary Review. Her poetry has also appeared in the anthology Poets Against the War (Thunder Mouth/Nation, 2003), and Shout Them from the Mountaintops: Georgia Poems (Legacy Press, 2003). She has been on staff at the Meachem Writers' Conference and received the Fulton County (Georgia) Arts Council Grant for a residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.
You asked me to paint my nails red
and so, of course, I did
even though I hated the way
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The air is crystallizing into gray.
It's the job of some things just to cover
Anything they find.
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Salamanders drop
Tails when threatened.
Trees lose branches
To parasitic ice.
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The way your body catches the sun and holds on
The way your body is jealous of the shadows
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