Sound 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Crickets, Cicadas

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

• •Five Songs

About the Cover

• •About the Cover

  Emily Louise Smith

Out of Place

• •A Quiet Lie of Nature Writing

  David Gessner

Fiction

• •The Discarded

  Aamina Ahmad

• A Scatter of Snow

  Brian Doyle

• Make the Angel

  Caitlin Hayes

• In the Time of Rocks

  Toni Jensen

Nonfiction

• The Ear Is a Lonely Hunter

  Barbara Hurd

• The Indian Vocabularies

  Megan Snyder-Camp

• Mapping the Bottom of the World

  Kathryn Miles

• D is for the Dance of the Hours

  Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Poetry

• C Train Concerto for Two Cellos, with Cavafy

  Katy Didden

• •Ghazal of the Elegant Skull

  Katy Didden

• Channels, Frequencies, and Sequences

  Michael Brooks Cryer

• •Sea Star

  Ned Balbo

• Satisfaction

  David Kirby

• •Siren

  Lynne Thompson

• The Minor Wife’s Lesson

  Noh Anothai

• •George’s Harmonica

  Sandra McPherson

• •Étienne De Fay

  John Lee Clark

• Old Deaf Joke

  John Lee Clark

• On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

  Angie Macri

• Alabama History

  Juliana Gray

• Sheep May Safely Graze

  Ralph Sneeden

• The Ecology of Falling Whales

  Anya Groner

• Little Fox Music Box

  Molly Sutton Kiefer

• Indiana, While It Lasted

  Corinna McClanahan Shroeder

• Pluck

  Corinna McClanahan Shroeder

Poem in a Landscape

• Heavy upon My Eye

  Annie Finch

• The Great Blue Heron

  Carolyn Kizer

Art

• Pictures of Music: Photographs from the Collection of Sarah Bryan

  Sarah Bryan

Special Feature

• Sovereignty Through Print: New Type, and a New Letterpress-printed Book, in the Cherokee Syllabary

  Luzene Hill

The Strip

• Dave

  Margaret Kimball

Map

• The Voices of Birds

  Kendra Sewall

One-Track Mind: Writers and Musicians on Their Favorite Songs

• One-track Mind: Writers and Musicians on Their Favorite Songs

• One Morning in May

  Alice Gerrard

• •“Po’ Black Sheep:” My Introduction to Black String Bands

  Dom Flemons

• “Green Onions” and a Gran Torino

  shirlette ammons