Enough

What if the end of the 
world isn’t fire or ice, 
but the pacu, vegetarian 
fish from the Amazon, 
which was introduced 
to the Sepik River and turned 
into man-eater. Or by corn 
drinking too deeply of top 
soil, or kudzu covering 
North America. We all 
yearn for our place. 
We all yearn for enough. 
The river thinks it has found 
its floor in a canyon 
only to have time 
move it away. The clouds 
finally root to the ground 
as fog only to unmoor 
with the sun. The coyote 
takes a bite of the day 
and sings it back 
to the night, jagged and sharp.  

Danielle Hanson is the author of The Night Is What It Eats, winner of the Elixir Press Prize (forthcoming), Fraying Edge of Sky, winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Prize, and Ambushing Water, Finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and editor of an anthology forthcoming from Press 53 and a book of literary criticism. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications. She teaches poetry at UC Irvine.