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

  Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He created PoetrySuperHighway.com and hosted the Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years (which lives on as a virtual series). His 29 collections of poetry include “God Wrestler” and “High Moose Alert.” He edited the anthologies  “A Poet’s Siddur”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”,“The Night Goes on All Night.” and “Ekphrastia Gone Wild.” Rick works as a music teacher and graphic designer. He writes a weekly Jewish poetry column for jewishjournal.com and can also be found online at jewishpoetry.net . He’s fond of his wife, their son, and cats. A Whole Day Has Gone By  A whole evening has gone by and we’ve found more ways to put food inside of us. I thought we were running out of room but the miracle of vacation stomachs is here. Addie’s ankle may or may not be injured and we’re hoping she doesn’t have to be airlifted to Miami. All of our previous cruise injury experience involves someone being airlifted t...

Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert created Poetry Super Highway ( poetrysuperhighway.com ) and hosted the Cobalt Cafe weekly reading for almost 21 years which has lived on as a Zoom series since 2020. He’s authored 28 collections of poetry, most recently It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere, and God Wrestler: a Poem for Every Torah Portion , and edited the anthologies A Poet’s Siddur , Ekphrastia Gone Wild , A Poet’s Haggadah , and The Night Goes on All Night . He writes a Jewish Poetry column for www.JewishJournal.com , and the daily web comic “ Cat and Banana ” with Brendan Constantine. He reads his poetry wherever they let him. At Night With Pizza Waiting for a table at the place where Margherita pizza was invented. A Meloncello Spritz is in my veins and we will dine-in unlike the citizens in the takeout line which goes up the street to where the city is divided in half. This could take a while so I may need wine to continue the magic and fall in love with whoever brings it to us. A platonic ...

      I have not, as many other people have, and with the exception of a weekend in Ventura, and a round trip drive to Sacramento, CA to pick up our newest feline overlord (both done in 2020),  traveled since before the pandemic. The news media is chock full of stories of people behaving badly, especially on planes, and even as we speak, several major airlines continue to cancel hundreds of already booked flights due to an employee shortage.        This of course, along with financial constraints (money comes and goes, more going than coming), are the reasons, for which I personally have put off any travel plans. That doesn’t mean I can’t travel in other ways, including my favorite way; reading books.        I’ve always appreciated Rick Lupert’s travel volumes, from We Put Things in Our Mouths ( © 2009 Ain’t Got No Press), to Hunka Hunka Howdy ( © 2019 Ain’t Got No Press). Lupert, p...

Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry since 1990.  He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and he created Poetry Super Highway and hosts the weekly Virtual Cobalt Cafe series. He’s authored 25 collections of poetry, including “God Wrestler” and “The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express”, and edited  “A Poet’s Siddur”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”, the Noir anthology “The Night Goes on All Night.” and “Ekphrastia Gone Wild” under his imprint Ain’t Got No Press. He works as a music teacher and graphic designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage. Land We are leaving 32000 feet behind for space below these clouds. All I see is ocean but the pilot is confident we are a half hour away from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport where our luggage and a SpeediShuttle await. I didn’t pay extra for the lei greeting as it seemed gratuitous and there are numerous luaus in our future. Finally one of the islands appears to the left of the plane. Molokai – evidenc...