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

                                                                     photo © Andrea Vanacore Barbara Anna Gaiardoni alias @bag is an Italian pedagogist and author. Winner of the First Prize in the 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup National Literature Price”. She began writing Japanese-style poems in 2019 and since has been published in Asahi Haikuist Network, Haiku Dialogue THF,The Japan Society UK, Drifting Sands Haibun, and 75 other international journals. Her works are been translated on Japanese, Romanian, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, French and in Spanish languages. Drawing, swimmer and walking in nature are her passions. Her motto is "I can, I must, I will do it.” Made in Italy “Cakes, biscuits and chocolates, all personalised in musical instruments shapes, notes, pentagrams and treble clef”, scream a peddler. If you're not...

  Hedy Habra is a poet, artist and essayist. She is the author of three poetry collections from Press 53, most recently, The Taste of the Earth (2019), Winner of the Silver Nautilus Book Award and Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award; Tea in Heliopolis Winner of the Best Book Award and Under Brushstrokes , a Finalist for the Best Book Award and the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets , won the Arab American Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. She is a seventeen-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the net. https://www.hedyhabra.com/ I linger along the rose orchard cooled by water fountains. A suspension of iridescent droplets rises and falls in splashing loops, trickles through inlaid channels. Here, air speaks with caressing syllables and fragrant language; each lemon tree heavy with golden globes, its crisp shiny leaf ready to break under my fingers’ slightest touch, oozes essential oils. E...