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

Jan Steckel’s book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press, 2018) won Rainbow Awards for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) also won awards. Voyage All night long I’d dreamed of old books, secret rooms, packing trunks. When I got home I drank snakebite chicory, remembered the fifteenth century, when I was a clerk in a ship’s hold. The big blond sailor with the Scandinavian name, I thought we’d burn in hell for what we did but didn’t care. Only ale and grog to drink,  the occasional rain, the cask-water too brackish for anything but washing. Cries of gulls long gone, turtle soup, dry biscuit, a bit of shoe leather called salted beef. Writing was a skill that only I and the captain had.  My Viking friend could break me with one hand. I liked it that way. Time eno...