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

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review,  and Sheepshead Review. Latest books, Between Two Fires , Covert , and  Memory Outside The Head , are available through Amazon. Grey has work forthcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, and California Quarterly . In Greenwich Village Away from grid smoke and subway rumble, I find chess players in Washington Square, bongo players drumming up a beat I first heard many years ago, a guy strumming a guitar with cap at his feet, and pigeons… so many pigeons, so much pigeon droppings. I drink coffee in a downstairs café, nibble the glaze off a stale donut, look around at the clientele, aging bohemians mostly, paying for java out of their social security checks. Then I stroll the narrow streets, am constantly reminded how far the world has come from this neighborhood’s heyday. The last record store is boarded up. The bookstore window offers Marxist tracts dirt chea...

                                                                               A fishing village on the Baltic coast Julius von Klever John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand , W ashington Square Review, and Floyd County Moonshine . Latest books, Covert , Memory Outside The Head , and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work is upcoming in the McNeese Review , Santa Fe Literary Review, and Open Ceilings .   On Tour in the Tyrol The locals wilkommen me into their shops. Shelves are stacked with wooden figurines, each with a broad painted lächeln, and many a ticking kuckucksuhr, their cuckoo birds chirping on the hour. I pick out a Schmuckstück, report to the counter, open my wallet. All is English from thereon. © 2023 John Grey On Course ...

© 2022 marie c lecrivain John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Red Weather . Latest books, “Covert” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Rathalla Review, and Open Ceilings . Tijuana Market  So many stalls, so many Che Guevara tee-shirts, an occasional benign Christ, pyramids built of onion and peppers and a Mariachi band playing for atmosphere and tips. Old women smothered in fibers, their earth-colored rugs weaved with cochineal fingers, and so much corn on the cob soaked with butter, and DVD’s of masked wrestlers. Hammocks for the weary, quetzals for the quick eye, and serapes the size of blankets, hats large and exaggerated enough for tourists to w...

J © 2022 marie c lecrivain John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review , Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review , and Hollins Critic . Latest books, “Leaves On Pages”, “Memory Outside The Head”, and “Guest Of Myself”, are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis , Blueline , and International Poetry Review . Hostel in Thailand  Clock on the sagging wall, like a fat man with a small face, as crickets sing between the sleepers, and slowly the encroaching shadows attend to each and every one of them like nurses on their rounds. The wind loosens the mosquitoes. Sapped of strength by heat, they fall upon the bodies. A fan turns like an inscrutable tide, putting everything back where it was without it having been anywhere. From the corner of my eye, I see my memories in other people, listlessly coiled like sick snakes, or slumped like they've been dumped. On a steamy nig...