Copyright 2022 Ryn Holmes

Such a summer! Do you feel the Earth’s wobble around its axis these days? That centripetal force tugging on you? Same here.

We’re thankful that humanity continues to flourish with fine writing. We’re elated to share some with you. As we hurtle into autumn, hope fills our days, shorter as they trend.

As always, thank you for reading and supporting Panoply! To our contributors, we send our deep gratitude and admiration.

Love,

Andrea, Clara, Jeff, and Ryn, Editors

Contents

5/2 – by Scott Ferry
Agios Dimitrios – by Gary Kaiser
An Accidental Appalachian – by Bakul Banerjee
At the Whitman Show at the Morgan Library, July 2019 – by Julia Lisella
Bisbee Blue – by Cal Freeman
Brancusi’s birds above Breckenridge – by Marcy Rae Henry
British Columbia Beach Walk – by Isobel Cunningham
Carryall – by Mary Alice Williams
Chemo Limp – by Cameron Morse
Cirrus, Balsam, Jasper, Watch – by Samn Stockwell
daughter – by Lisa Reily
descriptors – by Lisa C. Krueger
Don’t Feed the Bears – by Don Noel
The Gatekeeper’s Correspondence – by James Walton
Going Down the Road* – by Betsy Mars
Golden Observation – by Thomas McDade
Great Blue – by Bill Griffin
Haste – by Allan Peterson
Hollowed Bodies – by Tara Prakash
I Dreamed of Dolphins – by Marianne Tefft
Irish Exit – by Steven Deutsch
Isn’t the Cat the Only Sensible Being in That Painting? – by Hedy Habra
The Lady of Shalott’s in Hot Water Again* – by Jonathan Yungkans
Last Trip to the Barber – by Joy Gaines-Friedler
(Man)hattan – by Denmark Laine
Near – by John Riley
The Night’s Unwilling to Explain: A Golden Shovel – by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
The Old Cure – by Joan Mazza
Once Upon a Threshold – by Sandi Stromberg
Police Call at Night – by Ann Howells
Revisiting the Bardo Museum in Tunisia 2019 – by Arturo Desimone
The Sage Says the Blue – by Max Heinegg
Seeing It – by Robert Nisbet
Self Portrait – by Bartholomew Barker
Seven Pieces of Advice for My Nieces, Post-Roe v. Wade – by Marie C. Lecrivain
Sex Shop Sestina – by Gene Twaronite
Shellfish – by Diana Donovan
Shots Fired at Heckscher Park – by Emily-Sue Sloane
Some Dummy – by Allan Lake
SPF Infinite – by Lawrence Miles
spider-silk lacework – by Louise Kim
Stack Wood to Let the Air In – by John Hicks
Synesthesia – by Ann E. Wallace
Take Rest – by Mary Anna Scenga Kruch
Totem – by Karen George
Vapor –by David Colodney
War Anthem – by Adele Evershed
Who am I Today – by Steve Gerson
Wolf Prince – by Catherine Arra
Yosemite – by Roberta Schultz