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

  Disappearance Of An Impractical Nature The Dingle was the kind of place you would stop to take a leak, or disrespectfully throw a used mattress into its narrow, uneven ravine. The dog walkers gave it a wide birth. A green chain linked fence and whatever the season, wet dirt road was its more interesting southern border. Most chose the disappointing interstate. People tend to look twice at a meandering, naked old lady. Confirmation peaked with the number of calls. She was heading south intent on some purpose, feet black or bloody, muddied, yet still a dusty rose. Randle's farm was displaced somewhere near here. Apple orchards, trees with gnarley branches never boringly straight but contorted, personalized by their lack of constraint. Two Police cars, three youngish officers serious in the heat searched for an hour in this equals place. No wanderer found no mother, daughter, sister, no one even to compensate. © Colin James

  The Dashboard Horus Pushcart Prize nominees are: Lynne Bronstein “ Getting Off That Train ”(prose) Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabel's "Tiny Houses " (poem) Colin James's "Green Eyes" (poem)  Strider Marcus Jones's " Fading Sphinx" (poem) Cynthia Linville's "Joshua Tree National Park" (poem) Florence Weinberger's "The Journey From Scratch" (poem) Good luck to all the nominees, and congratulations!