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

Marieta Maglas resides in France, where she pursues dual careers as a poet and a doctor. Her literary themes encompass love, freedom, truth, justice, and existentialism. Marieta's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Three Rooms Press, Dissident Voice, Unlikely Stories Issue 6, Dashboard Horus, Four Feathers Press, Masticadores Canada, Lothlorien Journal, Verse-Virtual, Sparks of Calliope , and Silver Birch Press . Some of her poems have been translated into Japanese, published in the Journal of Akita International Haiku in Japan, and into Korean, appearing in DiziBooks in South Korea. Her poetry collection titled Cubic Words was released in Belgium.                                    Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as photographed by Miguel Claro in Portugal. (Image credit: Miguel Claro) Green Prose Poem   A verdant comet gliding past our Earth is  a magnificent mass o...

                                                                              Denise Dumars’s poem, “Snails,” is currently nominated for the Rhysling Award for short science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry. Her most recent collection of poems, Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal, was nominated for the Elgin Award. She has three short stories coming out in anthologies in 2022, including the HWA anthology Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology. A retired literary agent and college English professor, she now writes full-time and helms Rev. Dee’s Apothecary: A New Orleans-Style Botanica, at www.DyanaAset.com. Seeing the Comet All of a kind, we joined the others, crossing the bridge marked CLOSED. Black shorts, dark hoodies: we were of the faith. One supplicant brought a dog for sho...