Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

Marion Lougheed grew up in Canada, Benin, Belgium, and Germany. Her poetry won the Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge (Press 53, 2021) and the Poem In Your Pocket Day Contest (League of Canadian Poets, 2021). She has a deep love of meaningful travel and remains hard to pin down. Tweets @MarionLougheed Wait and See After three days of driving we near our new home where quiet and comfort await. A clean house, a cocoon in an urban storm. Our packing and driving are nearly at an end. We turn left. Lines on the streets worn out from salt and snow so you can barely make out the parking spaces when we stop to buy groceries for the first time since we left the scalded city. Gray skies, white fog and tree branches green with the tenacity of winter pine, fail to warn us that another journey will soon be at an end. We just have to wait and see. © 2022 Marion Lougheed  

Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry since 1990.  He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and he created Poetry Super Highway and hosts the weekly Virtual Cobalt Cafe series. He’s authored 25 collections of poetry, including “God Wrestler” and “The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express”, and edited  “A Poet’s Siddur”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”, the Noir anthology “The Night Goes on All Night.” and “Ekphrastia Gone Wild” under his imprint Ain’t Got No Press. He works as a music teacher and graphic designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage. Land We are leaving 32000 feet behind for space below these clouds. All I see is ocean but the pilot is confident we are a half hour away from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport where our luggage and a SpeediShuttle await. I didn’t pay extra for the lei greeting as it seemed gratuitous and there are numerous luaus in our future. Finally one of the islands appears to the left of the plane. Molokai – evidenc...

Good morning! I hope your 2022 is going better than your 2021, 2020, etc. After two years of what feels like a standstill, the world is moving forward, and in many cases, taking the opportunity to travel to places and countries never before visited, or imagined. Dashboard Horus wants to showcase your best travel poetry, fiction, essays, and art. It can be a photo of the Eiffel Tower, a story about traveling to Mars, or a poem about a train ride to Kyoto. Real, or imagined. We accept submissions on a rolling basis and will nominate for Pushcart, and Best of The Net. Guidelines Note: historically, travel writing comes with social commentary (think Joseph Campbell, or Jonathan Swift). However, any writing that contains racist tropes, hate speech, or a whiff of totalitarian leanings will NOT be considered for publication.  Send your submissions to: marielecrivainpd@gmail.com. Poetry: Two poems, no more than 100 lines combined. We accept all poetry forms, and experimental forms are alw...