Photo by Andrea Walker

Greetings in summer! We hope that during the heat of the season, you took time to savor the simple beauty of things. They abound! Issue 13 abounds with simple beauty as well, for which we thank our contributors. This issue includes an unusual number of longer pieces, many pop culture allusions, and a higher quantity of pieces with real attitude, verging on irreverence! As usual, we think you’ll enjoy the wide variety of themes, styles, and voices.

Look for Editors’ Choices weekly beginning in September. We’ll also have a new chap book review and our annual nominations for the Pushcart Prize, a real highlight for us all. Thanks for reading Panoply. Stay cool and reverent.

Best wishes,
Andrea, Jeff, and Ryn, Editors

Table of Contents

13th and Island Detox – Robert Rickelman
After 10 days roughnecking Oklahoma oilfields – Steve Gerson
After a Revolution – Susan Tepper
Agony of the Leaves – Blaise Allen
And So She Missed Early Spring – Amy O’Hearn
And Then She Walks Away – Kathleen Hogan
Avalon – Patricia Nelson
Before Sweat Had a Name – Katherine Hoerth
Bottled Ship – Aris Kian
Burial Site – Remi Recchia
Cactus Flower – Tova Feldmanstern
Chasing Grace – Lauren Scharhag
Coughing at the Wake – Linda Johnston Muhlhausen
Cynthia – Lenny DellaRocca
Daughters, spring – Arlyn LaBelle
Day 63 – Robert L. Penick
Dream Back – Timothy Pilgrim
A Dress to Die For – Sarah Brown Weitzman
The Epicurean Candidate – Nick Romeo
Epiphany – Sheila Black
Faye Taking a Breath – Rikki Santer
Feeder – Max Heinegg
Generations Heeling – Greg Maddigan
Green Pastures – Seth Grindstaff
Grief in 3 Years – Nicole McCaffety
hatchlings – Leo Levinsky
Hermits – Jessica Sommerfeldt
How to Live Stoned – Bob Hoeppner
It’s Aye Been – Carol Stewart
Joint Custody – Sherri Wright
Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Blasphemy, Who? – Jennifer Maloney
Learning by Heart – Laura Foley
Linnets – Hilda Weiss
Looking for Tommy Underwater – Zack Hutchinson
lord and taylor – Wayne-Daniel Berard
Loug Kya Kahen Gay – Laiba Fatima
Love Letter to the Blues – Adrian Potter
Museum – Diana Donovan
My Block of Time – Barbara Crane
My Way – Patricia Carragon
The One Who Always Gets Away – Philip Kobylarz
Outer Banks Beach – Ed Ahern
The Palm Reader of Hempstead – Gianna Sannipoli
Pass – Chad W. Lutz
Perfect Date Night – Lucas Shepherd
Why We Stopped in Petra – Andy Oram
Protected – Frances Koziar
Reflection – Laura Johnson
Reindeer Beards – Susan Kay Anderson
The Return – Karen McAferty Morris
road-house – Stephen House
Silver – Robert Nisbet
Snowdonia – Alan Parry
Stranger – Jason Emde
Suburban Wild – Joanne Furio
Summary in Free Verse 2 – Ann Mikusinski
Synesthesia – Gage Crowder
There Were So Many Apples – Elena Nailyevna
These Days – Erika Noel Johnson
Through the Keyhole – Christie Marra
Understory – Stephanie L. Harper
We Were Sitting by the River – Alec Solomita
What a Middle Name Is – Liam Strong
Window – Mzwandile Poncana
Windows Taught Us One Thing – Jonathan Yungkans
you lift your finger carefully as if heavy with paint – Kate LaDew