Hannah VanderHart

"Annie Dillard writes, “We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...” I tell my students to write about things they wonder about. Even living in town, I wonder at the pines and the birds crowding around our cul-de-sac. Wonder often carries me to the idea of communion and the basic desire to share something with another person. I think that’s why Dali’s Couple With Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936) is a powerful piece to me: the joining of landscape with the shapes of persons and the experience of communion—at a basic level, simply sharing a meal together." Find more of Hannah's work at Glass: A Journal of Poetry