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

  Pediatrician  Kelley   White  has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in  Exquisite Corpse, Rattle  and  JAMA.  Her recent books are  Toxic Environment  (Boston Poet Press) and  Two Birds in Flame  (Beech River Books). She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. Aquedoctan At a place called Aquedoctan Paugus Bay meets Winnipesaukee, Here dwelt Abenaki people Long before the current era Here they fished in spring and summer Traded food and strings of wampum Feasted, prayed, danced and courted Made alliances with each other Tribes that came to gather winter Supplies and share the new news Of other people’s dealings further To the North, South, East, and Western And the doings of the English Who soon enough a man called Endicott Came from the stolen land of Massachusetts And he claimed a rock that guarded The stoneworks long relied on To support the basketwork weirs ...

  Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and JAMA . Her most recent chapbook is A Field Guide to Northern Tattoos (Main Street Rag Press.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant and is currently Poet in Residence at Drexel University College of Medicine. Her newest collection, No.Hope Street has just been published by Kelsay Books. “Good night, Asbury Park, — Johnny Cash, July 28, 1990 I’ll see you at church tomorrow.” I don’t quite see how a hotel can nestle along the Jersey Shore but this one claims to— and who am I to doubt though this story I am recalling sounds doubtful—Johnny Cash investing 250,000 in a hotel in a failing town, Asbury Park? But there’s proof, a 1990 concert at the Paramount, with Ring of Fire, and June’s there too, and two of her sisters, and I Walk the Line and The Old Ragged Flag and, well the door just opened so I got no privacy but...

Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and JAMA . Her most recent chapbook is A Field Guide to Northern Tattoos (Main Street Rag Press.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant and is currently Poet in Residence at Drexel University College of Medicine. Her newest collection, No.Hope Street has just been published by Kelsay Books. Marmots Beware   Old Faithful, Yosemite, El Capitan! These cheeky little creatures will not be denied. You must wrap your car in plastic like enormous trash or Christmas presents lest the little fellows crunch up electrics or your engine. Don’t forget the underwrappings, they can squeeze into your chassis, and do more damage than our average little eastern squirrels. They live at elevations over 7000 feet so we’re mainly safe from their sharp little teeth here along the Atlantic. But a chipmunk’s brought down many an old car left idl...