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

Bio: T amara Madison is the author of the chapbooks The Belly Remembers (Pearl Editions) and Along the Fault Line (Picture Show Press), and three full-length volumes of poetry, Wild Domestic , and Moraine (Pearl Editions) and Morpheus Dips His Oar (Sheila-Na-Gig). Her work has appeared in Chiron Review, The Worcester Review , A Year of Being Here , One Art , The Writer’s Almanac, and many other publications. Her memoir-in-poems, Russian Honeymoon (forthcoming, Fernwood Press), chronicles the 15 months she spent as a very young bride as part of a US Information Agency exhibit in the USSR. Time Zones and Soldiers In two weeks I have crossed so many time zones: European, Pacific, Eastern Standard. Dazed by weeks of jet leg, I hardly know where I am. Now I’m surrounded by so many new faces, people I’ll soon know well. I don’t even try to learn their names. But at Heathrow, I spy Frank Zappa waiting near us in white bell bottoms, familiar mustache dripping down his chin. Pan Am to Mo...