Poem-A-Day: Panoramic View by Shanna Compton

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Panoramic View by Shanna Compton Last week Mars suddenly got a lot closer. It used to be the place we'd throw out as impossible, utterly unreachable, so red and foreign and sere. Not anymore. And I'm trying to figure out why watching the panorama makes something in the hot core of me crumple like a swig-emptied can, intoxicating though it may be, vibrant with out-of-this-world color like the whole thing's a sand painting, a dimensional mandala some galactic monk took her sweet time pouring freehand, blowing on it between sips of her tea, ruffling up the most dramatic of its rumpled crests. It's bluer than I thought, attained. Like most things I wish we could take back.   Copyright © 2012 by Shanna Compton. Used with permission of the author. Poetry by Compton Brink November 26, 2012 Shanna Compton is the author of three collections of poetry including Brink (Bloof Books, 2012).   Related Poems Mars Being Red by Marvin Bell Mars Poetica by Wyn Cooper The Horrid Voice of Science by Vachel Lindsay Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.   Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.   Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010.  Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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