W. Scott Hanna

W. Scott Hanna is a professor of English at West Liberty University, where he teaches creative writing and literature. His poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Cleaver Magazine, Still: The Journal, and others. He has served as the poetry editor of the Northern Appalachia Review since its inaugural volume in 2020. Born and raised in the Upper Ohio Valley, he currently lives in St. Clairsville, Ohio.

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Years Of Gravity

BY W. Scott Hanna

Certain things we just don’t want to know about until they’re real, to admit that a time comes when the only good parts left are all in the past, a time when we can no longer tread water, no longer put food to our own lips, no longer hobble to the bathroom on our own, no longer hold ourselves upright, no longer get into a car unassisted, no longer do any of the things that living requires without the need of someone else’s hands, without the need for someone to hold us up.