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

  L. Ward Abel’s work has appeared in hundreds of journals (Rattle, Versal, The Reader, Worcester Review, Main Street Rag, others), including a recent nomination for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and he is the author of three full collections and ten chapbooks of poetry, including his latest collection, The Width of Here (Silver Bow, 2021).  He is a reformed lawyer, he writes and plays music (Abel and Rawls), and he teaches literature. Abel resides in rural Georgia.  Cartographer  I.  On the walls,  door frame to sill to  window to corner and then  again, are topo maps their smallish   lines that somehow follow shades   blended into bold edges long and   bordered with green-brown lighter   to night-like loud   whispering.  II.  I think I’m obsessed   when it comes to those maps,  resolved but not resigned   to letter forms, some with   Latin roo...

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee , Firewords , Capsule Stories , Gyroscope Review, and So It Goes .  Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/ An Alphabetical Error   We had a map,  of course we did! And the names of the streets  were clearly written in English. The names on the streets were also clearly written but in Cyrillic Greek, of course they were! This was Athens in 1966 and we were struggling  to find the Folk Museum.   Then we had a stroke of luck! We spied a g...