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

  “Six times nominated for a Pushcart, once for Best of the Net, I am the author of six books of poetry, most recently These Days of Simple Mooring , winner of the Blue Light Press Book Award. Poems have appeared in journals including Calyx, Rattle, Mantis, River Styx, Ellipsis, Poet Lore, Comstock Review, Baltimore Review, Nimrod, Cider Press Review, Poetry East, Shenandoah , and numerous anthologies.” The Journey From Scratch Describing the world is easier than finding a place in it. Richard Siken I thought I’d make Siken’s sentence my epigraph because he’d compressed down to its pith a modicum of wisdom that zings straight to the thing. Saved for its certainty, I waited for the ping to plunge poetically into the quest; finally poked, I started from scratch, and found I didn’t believe a word of it. Journeys begin in the body, extracted from dreams and green longings. I was born, stood, walked, a world’s map before me, magnification of Frost’s two paths, from hamlets to continent...