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

Bio: T amara Madison is the author of the chapbooks The Belly Remembers (Pearl Editions) and Along the Fault Line (Picture Show Press), and three full-length volumes of poetry, Wild Domestic , and Moraine (Pearl Editions) and Morpheus Dips His Oar (Sheila-Na-Gig). Her work has appeared in Chiron Review, The Worcester Review , A Year of Being Here , One Art , The Writer’s Almanac, and many other publications. Her memoir-in-poems, Russian Honeymoon (forthcoming, Fernwood Press), chronicles the 15 months she spent as a very young bride as part of a US Information Agency exhibit in the USSR. Time Zones and Soldiers In two weeks I have crossed so many time zones: European, Pacific, Eastern Standard. Dazed by weeks of jet leg, I hardly know where I am. Now I’m surrounded by so many new faces, people I’ll soon know well. I don’t even try to learn their names. But at Heathrow, I spy Frank Zappa waiting near us in white bell bottoms, familiar mustache dripping down his chin. Pan Am to Mo...

  © 2023 marie c lecrivain Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English, who has been writing poems exclusively in English since 1993. His work has been published in over one hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the U.K, U.S. and elsewhere, most recently in Poetry New Zealand and New Contrast (South Africa). He lives in Venice, Italy. The Layers   Riding down the road, in the wind which brings and scatters things, I was passing by the car park which was once a courtyard, my mother told me, where her grandmother’s mare was buried. She always brought grandma home  trotting on her own ...

Mark States has written three poetry collections ( Reinvention from Mother's Hen in 1995, Grip of the Past from CC Marimbo Communications in 2000, and Tongue Control from The Laguna Poets Series #215 from The Inevitable Press in 2001).  Former host of Poetry Express (Berkeley, CA 2002-2011) and facilitator of the Public Speaking for Poets workshops at the Berkeley Art Center, Mark has appeared in such publications as Oakland’s Neighborhoods, Oracle, Poetalk, and the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly ; and on-line in Poetrymagazine.com, The November 3 rd Club and poeticdiversity.com . He currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. AVENUE OF DREAMS The last time I visited Nana’s house – in the passenger seat of a late-1970s Chevy as my friend the driver nervously watched the people on the block nervously watching us – it was an hour or so before sundown in East Oakland. She’d been dead 8 or 9 years, house sold, now two pickup trucks in the driveway and children’s toys s...

                                                                                    Photo © Alan Hainkel Steve Brisendine is a writer, poet, occasional artist, and recovering journalist living and working in Mission, Kansas. He is the author of two collections from Spartan Press: The Words We Do Not Have (2021, nominated for the 2022 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award), and the upcoming Salt Holds No Secret But This (2022). He was a finalist for the 2021 Derick Burleson Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Flint Hills Review , Aji , Modern Haiku, and other journals/anthologies. New York Which is Not Really New York: Dream I North of Central Park, the city slopes upward toward Harlem; its streets and sidewalks are empty, and someone has taken down all signs. I wait for som...