Abstract
The poem “Panning” was written on the 3rd of July 2018 during a summer poetry tutorial at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. The poet portrays a woman as the natural landscape who has been exploited by a man she trusted. The persona is the river with very little gold flakes and the selfish lover does not have the patience to sieve them, so he takes a less cumbersome path and explodes her escarpment base to get what he wants. But in the end, even he loses out on her, because the fish and gold shavings are strewn “far and wide” and he is left with nothing.
Recommended Citation
Sattar, Anum
(2019)
"Panning,"
The Mythic Circle: Vol. 2019:
Iss.
41, Article 13.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mcircle/vol2019/iss41/13
