Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel‘s long awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose recent passing has affected us all. We offer this issue in celebration of his storytelling. The word lost originates from the Old English losian, meaning to perish. While this collection features many narratives of loss, it also illuminates the journey to being found. We hope Bourdain is finding his way home.
...We picked blueberries instead of brambles,
our fingers bled black juice—
we were babies suckled on midnight milk.
The afternoon smelled of cobbler,
smelled of store-bought cream
cresting into peaks—...