Panther Pages
East Pennsboro Area High School's Literary Magazine
Look closely. Everything is an inconceivably complex Mandelbrot set, the smaller details showing under microscopic view. In some way each level reflects the greater layers. Organisms contain organs, contain organisms, contain organelles. Think of how every person has a hundred masks which convince others - and their wearers - that there is no face beneath. See the night sky for all its vastness: each system with histories; planets with moons. Even if you stare intently at a concrete sidewalk, eventually, questions will begin to form. To understand the worlds of science and society, we must engage in contemplations.
-Foster Lemley, staff
Autumn
The sounds of dried leaves crunching fill your surroundings, as you trample through the forest. The trees are leafless, and a chilling zephyr almost blows your hat off. Winter is just around the corner; it’s time to bundle up.
Winter
Oaks alone keep their leaves; them scraping against each other in the restful northern breeze.
The winds, they come as gales do, yet with none of the intention: hollow and melancholy,.
Nights become colder until numbness overtakes. You can't feel the frostbite on your toes.
Spring
Frosted over minds
Thawing back to life again
Flowing with questions.
Summer
Do you hear the bells of the ice-cream truck? Maybe the joyful clamoring of children escaping the clutches of schooling? Or, how about the waves of the ocean, crashing upon the sandy beaches? Summer, it’s nearly within our grasp.