Term: Issue 07: Dawn
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Imaginary Peaks
Maps are instruments of knowledge, science, and faith. One trusts the ability of the mapmakers and their associates to measure the terrain accurately, and then...
Ted
Eight. It takes twelve 7th graders to slug a hull to the beach, dark rising. They have not been on the water before and the...
Revenir
In Togo, a slice of a country just smaller than West Virginia on the West African coast, nobody says goodbye. Aller et retourner, go and...
Made in Iceland
Maybe I was being naive to think that it is as easily done as it is said. Or maybe I was grasping at straws seeking...
Guatemala
It feels like someone has stubbed a cigarette out on my chest. It’s dark, the middle of the night. I’m in bed. And, it happens...
Peace by the Water
I am sat on an endless beach on the southern tip of Barbados watching the sun get lost in the waves. I’m with Carly, my...
Homesickness
Had I ever been homesick? It was a fair question from my friend, Priscilla, as we sat in a Seattle coffee shop and talked about...
Susanna's Secrets
Auguste Rodin’s well-known bronze sculpture, The Secret depicts a mysterious object held between two hands [iii]. The hands around ‘the secret’ belong to two individuals....
Spirit Animal
We stare at each other with unblinking intensity, this tiny brown primate and me. I’ve come to the Bohol Tarsier Sanctuary early this morning, a...
Fruits of Summer
When the clusters of round green fruits peek out from under the broad leaves of the santol tree in our yard, I am filled with...
Indifference to Gratitude
As Rob Dückers, our tour guide for the day at the Amsterdam Museum, explained the Dutch’s practical mindset of making money, I couldn’t help but...
select important things
For select important things (2022), I have created my own knowledge system to navigate the shifting landscape of meaning and meaning-making in the 21st century....
Four Arisings
Every story starts with the sun. The light illuminating the page you are reading began its journey over one hundred thousand years ago. After it...
La Familia
Even before Andres asked if he could use my bed to have sex with a Turkish woman, I had the feeling our friendship was headed...
The Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, spanning nine countries of South America, is the world’s largest ecosystem and the most biodiverse place on earth with around 80,000 species...
The Postcard from Venice
There is a kiosk on Lido island. You pass it when you step off the ferry from Venice and walk down the main road, which...
The Stills are Silent
He travels. His pictures are his way of taking me. He has always taken me. Cambodia. Cotabato. China. That’s just the letter C.
The Train Rolls On
Whenever the freight trains comes through Grady, Arkansas, where my maternal family originates, the windows, tables and kitchen tops shake as the locomotive makes it...
On the Dagli: A Translator's Note
Within the tradition of Philippine literature written in Filipino, an œuvre distinct from Philippine Anglophone literature and literatures of other local Philippine languages, the dagli...
Raqib
In my hands, Alice Munro’s short story collection Dear Life. Saudia’s flight to Dammam from Riyadh is delayed. We sit next to each other. You...
Haqq
Tonight, we would not cross the King Fahad causeway. Despite dreadfully wanting to see the film in a movie house, I knew Lars von Trier’s...
Hamid
Like a dead cat, I lay in bed. Facing the broken air-conditioning on the other side of the room. The temperature here, in Saudi, plummets...
The Path to Masada
I open my eyes into pitch black, surrounded by sand, camels, and the brightest stars I’ve ever seen. “I’m not really Jewish.” Despite a night...
Fire in the Mind
Imagine, for a moment, a Cézanne who, rather than attempting to picture the structure of Mont Saint-Victoire and of every part of the natural world...
Rise
The shutters rise on a high-end fashion store, the ground in front is liquid, gently rippling as it obscures the entrance. Cutting to a second...
Remember the Dead
My family has been making headstones and caretaking cemeteries for almost a hundred years. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about death, memorializing it,...
Flee, Flee from Babylon (- გაიქეცი ბაბილონიდან!)
Hello? Can’t hear you, your voice – comes and goes, network connection is lousy, the signal weak – I’m at the meeting. Hold on, there’s...
Fertile Land (ბარაქიანი მიწა): A Symphony in Six Parts
To the luminous memory of Georgia’s great writer, Otar Chkheidze, who gave us, along with other masterpieces, the translation of The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot.
Ever West: A Journey into the Sunset
Every journey starts with an opening of the eyes and a stretch of the muscles. We fidget our toes and activate our necks, preparing our...
Dawn at the Edge of the World
It has just gone 11am and I am standing in the pre-dawn light at a fault-line between worlds. Here, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge the continental...
Beyond White Guilt
Here, at the edge of day, the land articulates a wild music to assure itself that it has stayed, despite night’s perpetual wash, the thieving...
At Long Last, A New Dawn in Travel Writing
How exciting to see the new dawning of a new day at Panorama in a moment when travel and travel writing are undergoing a long-overdue...
No Deep Roots
I’ve done this before, I think. Maybe one too many times as my body denies the journey, tucked up in the front passenger seat of...
Dawn's Blossom
Good day. Beautiful day. Simple. Mysterious. You flare up. So vital — a blossom. In abundant light.
The Information Front
The Information Front is a new publication that highlights the work of Ukrainian photographers currently active covering the war. Here we speak with one of...
Syracuse, Siracusa
Sunrise often means standing at the front door in Syracuse, New York, looking across the highway at the sun coloring over cornfields with layer upon...
Mustard Flower
The instructor is quoting Yeats. Behind him a painting of a naked woman, her legs lifted so that most of her torso is hidden, a...
First View of the Ponte Vecchio
I watched a stream of humans from both banks flow toward its golden presence. Once on the bridge, my simple joy became watching others stroll....
Eastern Light
Held aloft in canopies of green. Cicada drone. Light takes as its own. Summer timbre. At my window. Down here. I watch day’s approach. Slowly...
Early Morning
Down the still-black streets, bowed under the weight of my pack. Half-empty city buses pass by. At one stop a block from the station, a...
Phthalocyanine: Between Cities
The Hudson, blue now as the glassy shore, resolves to an atonal island’s chord, a boat-length segment in the atmosphere. One trader falls into the...
Paris Photograph
Dusk blue. Down the Rue Soufflot, Eiffel Tower shimmers like champagne on a candlelit table. I am twenty-three, American, camera clicking at the distant landmark.
Excerpt: In Every Mirror She's Black
Told through the perspectives of three Black women in Sweden, internationally-acclaimed and bestselling In Every Mirror She’s Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible...
Issue 7: Dawn
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places,...