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

A dual citizen of Ireland and the states, Greg Patrick is an Irish Armenian traveler poet and the son of a Navy man. Greg spent his youth in the South Pacific and Europe and currently resides in Galway, Krakow, and sometimes the states. He now writes and travels.   The idol-adorned prow of the patron demigod of the sea seemed to ward off the rain from the massing clouds, and the vessel seemed like an isolated and diminutive champion confronting a colossus. He allowed himself a brief moment of solace but it was a dulcet painful brevity, like a kiss on eve of battle. The elusive peace or contentment that the mariner-haunted could not endure. For the gaze would look from reunited lover back to the sea with a guilty yearning to the horizon, as if back to the sight of an old passing love by in a crowd, or a blue-gowned belle beyond one’s reach but not one’s dreams. The Polynesian praise singer reflected that the dolphins, in like beams of submerged blue flame, might as well be ancestral...