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

Tim Tipton was first seduced by the craft of poetry when he read the "Panther" by Rainier Maria Rilke. He has written poetry that has been featured in ART/LIFE , Askew , The San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly , and the on-line journal poeticdiversity . Tim is a graduate of California State University of Northridge where he received a Bachelor of Science in Sociology. He also received a degree in Substance Abuse counseling. Naked    You wake me with your pale smooth body    and your chicken pox scar     the shape of snake river    The window stands open     a draft of air hits our ankles     I relish watching the moonlight  going out across your back as   you sleep perfectly still, unwavering  Your head rests between your shoulders   My eyes sparkle...

  Jan Steckel left a busy pediatric practice caring for mostly Spanish-speaking children to work as a poet, writer, and medical copyeditor. She is Jewish, bisexual, and disabled by chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Assaracus and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California. Machetazos Today Benita Miller de Robinson will carry water with one arm. She will cook cassava root and sweet potato and yams in an iron pot over illegally made charcoal. She will clean the house and brush all the dirt out the front door with a homemade broom. She will empty her second-to-youngest son out of the dish-washing tub so she can wash the dishes. She will beat her clothes and t...

  © 2023 marie c lecrivain Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English, who has been writing poems exclusively in English since 1993. His work has been published in over one hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the U.K, U.S. and elsewhere, most recently in Poetry New Zealand and New Contrast (South Africa). He lives in Venice, Italy. The Layers   Riding down the road, in the wind which brings and scatters things, I was passing by the car park which was once a courtyard, my mother told me, where her grandmother’s mare was buried. She always brought grandma home  trotting on her own ...

  © 2023 marie c lecrivain Robert S. King lives in Athens, GA. His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines, including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Hollins Critic, Kenyon Review, Main Street Rag, Midwest Quarterly, Negative Capability, Southern Poetry Review , and Spoon River Poetry Review . He has published eight poetry collections, most recently Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020). His personal website is www.robertsking.info . Bird’s Eye View of Flying South   In the wild fall of paradise they rise, rainbows of feathers and leaves free-flapping on an autumn breeze, flocks streaking the sky on a southbound, fleeing wind.   B ut across the shadow border of skyscrapers, birds weave through mazes of power lines and windshields. Almost captiv...