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

                                                                               © 2024 Jeanie Greenfelder   Jeanie Greenfelder’s poems have been published at American Life in Poetry, Writer’s Almanac , and as a Poetry Foundation Poem of the Day; in anthologies and in journals: M iramar, Thema, Askew, Persimmon Tree , and others. She served as the San Luis Obispo County poet laureate, 2017,18. Jeanie’s books are Biting the Apple , Marriage and Other Leaps of Faith , and I Got What I Came For. Learn more at jeaniegreensfelder.com Time Travel My ten-year-old self climbs into her time machine, aims for age twenty-four, and over-shoots the mark. In the ballpark still, but landing with me, age eighty, she pouts, wants to play Monopoly, and eat Twinkies. She hates maintenance, floss, water pick, and brush, wonders why she aches and can’t sleep. Where are the parties and dances she’d imagined? Her prince turns out to be an ancient king. She rails against kale and cauliflower, longs for grille

                                                           © Kyoto News Keiko Amano was born and reared in Yokohama, Japan. She writes both in English and Japanese. Her first book, Ocha Teacher , was published in 2015. Some of her short stories and essays have appeared in magazines. In order of publication, most recent first, they have appeared in p oeticdiversity (US), WilsonFest: Nature and Mystery, Poets on Site (US) , the East Jasmine Review (US), the Bicycle Review (US) , San Dimas Writer’s Workshop (US) , Contemporary Literary Horizon (Romania), and Eye-Ai (Japan). She was an infrastructure systems programmer for Farmers Insurance Group in Los Angeles for thirteen years and worked mainly at the data centers of various corporations in Japan and the U.S. She took many creative writing classes at UCLA Extension and attended Writers workshops. Mother had nothing good to say about the Beatles before, but now she has jumped to my side and joined the cheering crowd. Her motto is t

  Internationally published, award-winning poet and historian, Duane L Herrmann has work translated into several languages, publications in a dozen countries, in print and online, including nine collections of poetry, a sci fi novel , a history book, and a collection of short stories. His poetry has received the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship, inclusion in American Poets of the 1990s , Map of Kansas Literature (website), Kansas Poets Trail and others. These accomplishments defy his traumatic childhood embellished by dyslexia, ADHD, an anxiety disorder, and PTSD. He spends his time on the prairie with trees in the breeze, writes – and loves moonlight! Partition Affects My aunt arrived in rags and my cousin too, but they were alive. Trains arrived all passengers dead didn’t make the news too many dead to care. Fortunately, my aunt had been able to sew some jewels in hiding that were not searched. Muslim neighbors gone, they moved in. Just ten, I didn’t understand tragic circumstance as