Welcome to Issue 30 of Panoply. This issue completes our tenth year! We’re quite honored to have been part of such a creative and wonderful project. And we look forward to keeping on! Thanks for your support, patronage, and lovely work.
It’s been an unsettled – and unsettling – time around here recently. Unfortunately, we’re keenly aware that that statement applies to too much of our world. While we strive to tilt the scales in favor of what is good, right, and just, we keep to our own good health and welfare. Perhaps Panoply plays a small role in evening your keel amid these tumultuous waters.
Have a look at the fine work here, so much that it busts our informal norms of content! We do stress quality over quantity, but this time we can boast both!
As always, we send our love and thanks and ask you to pray for Ukraine.
Andrea, Clara, and Jeff, Editors
Panoply
Contents
83/Westlawn – by Thomas Skahill
Adidas & Autism – by Tony Gloeggler
Astringent Days – by Heidi Joffe
At the Cost of Flight – by Haley DiRenzo
Au Revoir, Geneviève – by Harry Lowery
Cento with Bowls of Fruity Pebbles – by Brian Dickson
Child and Snake – by Corbett Buchly
Chrysalis – by Kate Marchetto
Delinquents – by Lenny DellaRocca
Down the Garden – by Monique Bova
Elevated – by Maree Collie
Estimated Time of Repair – by Daniel Edward Moore
Farmhouse – by Samn Stockwell
The Fence – by Nilsa Marino
Friends Who Are Married – by Jackie Chou
Germany as Gorgon Medusa – by Gabrielle Langley
Going Home – by Robert Thomas
Golden Gate Fields – by Kathryn Jordan
Hunger – by Valy Steverlynck
I Married a Lifeguard -by Daniel Morris
If You Live Long Enough – by Harrison Fisher
The Impossibility of Motion – by Tim Love
Internal Affairs – by Gerald Yelle
Meditation on Yellow – by Michelle DeRose
Mid-Route Bus Stop – by Jean Liew
The morning after – by Valentina Fulginiti
My bi-polar bear – by Paul Martin Strohm
Naples Cafe – by Michael O’Dell
New Year Ritual – by Bob Beagrie
Ode to My Father’s Couch – by Michael VanCalbergh
The Oracle of Delphi writes – by Jonathan Jones
Pangaea: love poem to a friend – by Caroline Simpson
Picasso in Paris – by John Drudge
Procession – by Chris Dahl
Prosopopoeia – by Laurie Kuntz
Prospects of a Young Hawk – by Matthew Friday
Purpura Patula, The Elusive Snail – by Betsy Mars
Rabbit Holes – by Adele Evershed
Reading Some Guy’s Book of Poems After One by Jericho Brown – by Kerry Trautman
Red Eyes – by Linette Rabsatt
Reflections from a House – by Jeannie E. Roberts
Retreat – by Peter Appleton
A Secret Chord – by Claire Scott
Still Life – by Steve Gerson
Suburban Tableau – by Nancy Machlis Rechtman
Sunday Coffee – by Marianne Tefft
Taking Up the Cause of Brokenness – by Jeff Hardin
Tasks – by Paul O. Jenkins
Time – by Sushma Doshi
Too Early for Blackberries – by Richard L. Matta
Two Toxicology Readouts – by Cal Freeman
An Umbrian Village in Spring – by Damaris West
Unseaworthy: a zuihitsu – by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
The Walker – by Ann Howells
Walking on Your Hands – by m.l. Bach
Warmth on a Chill Night – by Lorraine Caputo
We Do What We Can – by Audrey Howitt
What the Water Has Given – by James Ducat
What Waking Was – by Elly Katz
The Year You Were a Doll – by Sandi Stromberg
Editor-in-Chief Jeff Santosuosso, is a business consultant living in Pensacola, FL. His chapbook, Body of Water, is available through Clare Songbirds Publishing House. He’s also edited and reviewed poetry collections for his friends. An avid sports fan and traveler, he lives with his wife and 4 cats, plus a stray or two who drop by at mealtimes.
Clara Burghelea, Romanian-born, writes poetry in English and French. She is in love with literary translation, teaching and travelling. She swears by coffee and good movies.
Ryn Holmes has been an award winning photographer, including first prize in ‘Art on Paper,’ a category of the initial San Francisco “Art in the Park” event. A graduate of the University of San Francisco, she continues expanding her role as teller and listener of stories while living an adventurous life on the Gulf of Mexico. She is a partner at K&K Editing.
Andrea Jones Walker, a native Floridian, makes her home in Pensacola, FL. She serves as an occasional instructor of English at Pensacola State College and is on the Board of the West Florida Literary Federation. She has published viewpoint pieces in the Pensacola News Journal and pens book reviews. Her novel Bending the Arrow is available on Amazon.
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