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

                                                                                                                                       © John DeAngelo John DeAngelo was born and raised in Greenwich Village. And if asked, he’ll tell you that he has always been an artist, both a poet and visual artist. John is a Vet who served in Vietnam. And whether out of fear of boredom or death, (probably both) he first began writing and photographing seriously. After making it home more or less intact, he received a B.A. in English and subsequently pursued graduate study in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, where his focus was poetry and was fortunate to ...

  Sandra Tanhauser first started writing poetry in the early 1970’s when she lived in the Santa Monica/Venice Beach area. The artistic scene then centered around small bookstores and Beyond Baroque which was a venue for poetry readings and other artistic performances. She had a number of poems published in Bachy and Momentum . After retirement from a career in IT, she returned to writing and has been very involved with poetry scene at the Sacramento Poetry Center. Several of her recent poems have been published in Voices and LAdige Review . She finds poetry a beautiful avenue for exploring the essence of life. Five Thousand Stone Steps Five thousand stone steps, where runners in sandals climb thru orchid laden forests hung with mist thru clouds that hover over valleys and waterfalls that spiral over cliffs. lead to Machu Picchu meeting point of earth and heaven amid soaring iridescent peaks. Magnificent city of stone, clay hills terraced in succession high above rounding rivers...