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

Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/ . A member of The Poetry Society, and nominated for both the Pushcart Prize x3 and Best of the Net (x3), his five published books of poetry  https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/ reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms.                                                                                                         © marie c lecrivain Fading Sphinx another beautiful eye reflects lifes lie, when you look into its face and see a b...

Marieta Maglas resides in France, where she pursues dual careers as a poet and a doctor. Her literary themes encompass love, freedom, truth, justice, and existentialism. Marieta's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Three Rooms Press, Dissident Voice, Unlikely Stories Issue 6, Dashboard Horus, Four Feathers Press, Masticadores Canada, Lothlorien Journal, Verse-Virtual, Sparks of Calliope , and Silver Birch Press . Some of her poems have been translated into Japanese, published in the Journal of Akita International Haiku in Japan, and into Korean, appearing in DiziBooks in South Korea. Her poetry collection titled Cubic Words was released in Belgium.                                    Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as photographed by Miguel Claro in Portugal. (Image credit: Miguel Claro) Green Prose Poem   A verdant comet gliding past our Earth is  a magnificent mass o...

Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published: Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press, and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski's Porch Press, and a book of poems, Resisting Probability , from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Massachusetts. Green Eyes Minerals, you have to get them on your side, otherwise disenchanting brown stains occur. The attendant is subtly attentive behind his glass partition. He reads a travel brochure, yet another refurbishment of Brighton Pier. Probably longs for the American northwest. White overalls and other tree houses anchored amid the higher reaches. There is that pause before the waterfalls when the lake of inversion increases. Temporal the word I should have used. © Colin James  

  © Sanjukta Kar      Sanjukta Kar is a  talented, multidisciplinary, contemporary artist from Asansol, West Bengal. Pen-and-ink drawings are her forte. She loves to experiment with other mediums and works with them with equal ease. She believes in sharing, caring, and also teaches children. Kar completed "Ankan Ratna" in Fine Art (Painting), from Bangiya Sangeet Parishad, which is affiliated to Rabindra Bharati University. She also attended Charukala Parishad Camp in West Bengal. Kar also works for the development of other artists. Covid times have been really tough for artists. To keep their art alive, keep artists engrossed,  and get them to show their presence, Kar arranges various events. She’s participated in many competitions and exhibitions.

  “Six times nominated for a Pushcart, once for Best of the Net, I am the author of six books of poetry, most recently These Days of Simple Mooring , winner of the Blue Light Press Book Award. Poems have appeared in journals including Calyx, Rattle, Mantis, River Styx, Ellipsis, Poet Lore, Comstock Review, Baltimore Review, Nimrod, Cider Press Review, Poetry East, Shenandoah , and numerous anthologies.” The Journey From Scratch Describing the world is easier than finding a place in it. Richard Siken I thought I’d make Siken’s sentence my epigraph because he’d compressed down to its pith a modicum of wisdom that zings straight to the thing. Saved for its certainty, I waited for the ping to plunge poetically into the quest; finally poked, I started from scratch, and found I didn’t believe a word of it. Journeys begin in the body, extracted from dreams and green longings. I was born, stood, walked, a world’s map before me, magnification of Frost’s two paths, from hamlets to continent...

  Michael Dwayne Smith is the author of five books, including a forthcoming poetry collection, Shaking Music from the Angry Air (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, September 2025); his work haunts many literary houses, including Heavy Feather Review, ONE ART, Third Wednesday, New World Writing Quarterly, decomP, Heron Tree, Gargoyle, Monkeybicycle , and Star 82 Review . He's a recipient of the Hinderaker Poetry Prize, the Polonsky Prize for fiction, and several Pushcart Prize/Best of the Net nominations. He lives near a Mojave Desert ghost town with his family, rescued horses, and Calamity the California calico cat. Do You Remember the Last Stars of Visalia? We took a Greyhound up Route 99, chugging through San Joaquin Valley, the day overtaken with haze and drizzle, past lingering rolls of farmland, graffitied bridges, little Tipton’s railroad ghosts, knots of trees tied to the Tule Rivers, through Tulare, small fieldhand towns dotted with pickups and boots and cantinas, us chatting up the ...