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

Bio: Howard Sage hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway Ireland and from Philadelphia to Ames, Iowa. He edited and published an award winning magazine Pulp .                                 Matzo Boat Voyage                     All the flimsy boats have left. None awaits me. I look toward the sea; a piece of matzo peers above the waves, asks me to leap aboard. We paddle forth. c 2024 Howard Sage

                                                                                       photo by The Independent Howard Sage’s poetry and prose has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review , Poetry Quarterly , and recently in Dissident Voice . He has contributed several pieces to The New York Times Metropolitan Diary column. He received first prize in the Greenburgh, New York annual poetry competition. His interview with Ralph Ellison is part of the Ellison papers. He hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway, Ireland. I’m Merle—you don’t need to know my so-called “last” or family name. All you need to know is that I’ve had more than enough of sea vistas and lobster traps. And why not? I’ve ensconced myself here for umpteen years, ok, nine of them, and I will leave tomorrow, so I...