Term: Issue 02: Treasures
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The Mysterious Case of Him
Of all the waters we could have chosen to scheme by, it was always Rogers Burn that caught us diving with boys or fishing with...
Poet in the Jungle
Heading for the Amazon, past the great volcano Coto Paxi, muzzle of a giant animal rising 19,000 feet from its base, snow-covered, waiting to pounce,...
Gift Fruit
I can speak Japanese in this poem, and my mind will touch yours so we both understand the custom of gift fruit. Baskets perfumed with...
Pickles
As the sourness subdues my craving, the pickle bites memory into my tongue. When I was 12, I would chase pickles with creamy whole-milk, feel...
The Places
A laundry list is its own ultimate beauty. Licking the core of this breakup. Your sternum’s craft and transcendence. You’ve just enhanced my taste for...
I’le Glut you with Gold — The Strange Ambivalence of the Treasure Map
I beheld great heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold. That was Flint’s treasure that we had come so far to seek...
The Colour of Guanabara Bay
The starting point of my photo series was the image of Rio de Janeiro and one of its most iconic vistas: Guanabara Bay and Sugar...
Emerging Writer: Sometimes the Past Lingers
It is early August. Everything is lush from the wet season. We are encased in mountain peaks that bookend the river valley, infinite. The riding...
How to Plant Roots in the Sand
The thunder and lightning crash so hard around my home it knocks paintings from the wall and tchotchkes to the floor. A wall of rain...
Black Band, Blue Ribbon
I am surrounded by a few thousand strangers, yet they are my family. I adopted myself into this community of black and blue the day...
The Empty Country
In 1933, my father spent his 18th birthday hanging upside down in a cell in Vilna’s infamous Lukiskes gaol, urine poured into his nostrils by...
Earthy Knowledge
It’s 1989, my brother’s fourth birthday. We all huddle together on Towan Beach, our backs against the autumn sea-gusts, and anoint him with headphones and...
Thor Heyerdahl and Kontiki
Our classrooms had earthen floors and windows the size of full moons – a truant’s blessing, but I wasn’t one. We sprinkled water every morning...
Streetview: San Diego
In 2014, I started my life over by returning to San Diego, the Californian city on the Pacific Ocean. It’s a city I have claimed...
The Killing Tree
This is where you could have died when you were four. Your tiny body smashed against the tree trunk, your back bent into an impossible...
New York's Unreal Estate
A traveller by definition is a person far from home, and as such, is receptive to a never-ending stream of impressions roused by the strange....
The Ice Cream Scoop
The frightened moon and stars were hiding. The typhoon howled and dredged the Philippine Sea in search of living things. In a stolen outrigger with...
The Ship Breakers
The Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh devours her children. I’ve worked in the delta’s sludge for five years, and already she has consumed the big...
The Hair
Abdul didn’t hear her say those words. But that’s what he imagined she would be saying to the men in front of her. She made...
Treasure as Transformation
When the editorial team for Panorama suggested the theme of ‘treasure’ for our second issue, I was immediately intrigued. The idea of treasure is a...
Issue 2: Treasures
Welcome to Panorama’s second issue. Panorama exists not only to publish extraordinary, diverse travel literature and imagery, but to widen the definition of what travel...