Hello Panoply World,

Can you believe it’s already 2024?! A leap year at that! So much happening in our news, significant armed conflicts, the onset of a US Presidential election, the coming of the Summer Olympics … Meanwhile, our poetry and flash prose world continues to flourish. We love it! Issue 26 features some great new voices and welcomes back some familiar ones. We’ve got CNF, form poetry, rhyme, experimental and new forms, plenty of free verse, even a sonnet! We travel through space and time, laugh and cry, love and mourn. We thank our fine, brilliant contributors for letting us feature their art and of course, thank you for sharing your time with us at Panoply.

Pray for Ukraine.

Love, Andrea, Clara, and Jeff, Editors

Contents
9 – by Merilyn Chang
After Bean Picking – by David R. Topper
After Dinner Was Over and Dishes Put Away – by Ginger Dehlinger
The Air is Heavy and Alive – by Rina Palumbo
Angry Wet Wind – by Marianne Brems
Aunt Nini’s Dream – by Lenny DellaRocca
Birds of the Morning – by Jackson Evans
black widow – by Ken Cathers
Blur – by Diana Donovan
A Brief Lesson in Natural History – by Mercedes Lawry
Chateau Couchebout – by Kathi Crawford
Discoveries at the Bottom of the Ball Pit, Written on a Child’s Birthday Party Invitation– by Cecelia Kennedy
Do You Recall the Dawn of Aesthetic Pursuit – by Hedy Habra
Dream Screenshot – by G. Timothy Gordon
First House – by Patricia Nelson
Following – by Michael Thomas Ellis
Force 11: Accompanied by Widespread Damage – by Karla Linn Merrifield
Halcyon Days – by Sharon Whitehill
Introducing High Schoolers to Poetry – by Brandon C. Spalletta
Ithaca Waterfall – by Ingrid Bruck
learning angst – by Geoffrey Aitken
Letter to Hugo on Skye – by David James
Letting Go – by Karen VandenBos
Letting Go of the Self – by Tara A. Elliott
Lilies and Not Children – by Gavin Kayner
Lines in Her Palms – by Agaigbe Uhembansha 
A Little Haven – by Sandi Stromberg
Magpies of Madrid – by Bruce E. Whitacre
Mama and Me – by Greg Garner
Metronome – by Megha Sood
Mighty Oak Haibun – by Laura Daniels
A Moment in Time – by James G. Piatt
Morning Light – by Victoria Wiswell-Mabe
My Brother, Summer, A Photograph – by Andrena Zawinski
Never Enough – by Soumya Doralli
Nothing He Said – by Tony Gloeggler
Old Todd’s Place – by Mark Mansfield
Open Range: A Haibun – by Shelli Rottschafer
Plea – by Donna Vitucci
Poem for Marie Laveau – by Chris D’Errico
Poem in a Time of Chaos – by KB Ballentine
A Poet, Awaiting the Verdict – by Marzia Rahman
Premature – by Lorraine Caputo
Preparing to Accept – by PD Lyons
Sentences 122-129 – by Scott Ferry
Sex – by Nicole Chvatal
Statewide Lockdown, Day Forty – by Ace Boggess
Summer Reruns – by Kenneth Kapp
The Toy Room – by Shannon Frost Greenstein
Three Days, Max – by Hibah Shabkhez 
Tram ride with Jibanananda – by Sayantani Roy
Trois différences entre lui et elle – by Charles A. Perrone
Two Sides of a Butterfly Wing – by Cordelia Hanemann
Urn – by Jordin Swanson
The Very Last Time for Everything – by Daune O’Brien
Visitation Hours – by Audrey Howitt
When the Whole World is Short Staffed – by John Milkereit
The Winter Heron – by Steve Ablon
You Might Hear a Mother Calling – by Susanna Lang