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

                                                                                  © 2024 Alea Celeste Williams Bio:  Alex S. Johnson's poetry has been featured in numerous venues, including 1 3 Mynah Birds, Black Noise, Horror Sleaze Trash, Misfits, Rye Whiskey Review, Dashboard Horus, and Unlikely Stories . His prose and poetry collections Skull Vinyl and The Doom Hippies were acquired by the Widener Library at Harvard University for their cultural significance. John Shirley, co-creator of the Cyberpunk genre and co-author with David J. Schow of the cult classic horror film The Crow wrote of Johnson's dark poetry collection, The Flowers of Doom, "Alex S. Johnson is the Baudelaire of our time; the poet of the underground." His upcoming books include White on White: A Literar...

Bio: Alex S. Johnson is a retired English professor, author and editor currently living in Sacramento, California. His current projects include the William S. Burroughs tribute anthology The Junk Merchants Volume 2 , as well as the horror anthology Campfire Bloody Campfire. His poetry has appeared in 13 Mynah Birds , various anthologies and his 2012 collection The Death Jazz, which was praised by the likes of Ellyn Maybe, John Shirley, and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. Maps to Never Unscrolling the land across a nodal grid where pulses smoke-spoken prophecies of the high priestess whose brown abundance mothers  A fleet of luminous ships rigged out with blessings, salvos of lyrical weapons hotly tongued Limbs engraved with the language of solar deity jungles seized with a jagged architectural sentience,  manifesting pyramids with steps to meet the sun, Regal crimson snakes, forests of laughing turquoise birds folded from the vastness of origami skies sheen of the muscles of...