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

                                                                              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...

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/ Barcelona Past   It was our first trip to Spain. We were determined to travel and with little money, we hitched to Spain. Barcelona was the choice. Well, not a choice exactly. It was where the driver was going. He found us a pension in an old street. He knew the owner. Well, he’d stayed there himself. It was cheaper than cheap and friendly. We wen...

  Toti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. Born in Rome, living in Los Angeles, she is an artist, musician and dancer. She is the author of Other Maidens (BlazeVOX, 2020), An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise Press, 2020), In Her Terms (Cholla Needles Press, 2021), Pages of a Broken Diary (Psky’s Porch, 2022) and Alter Alter (Elyssar Press, 2022). Commute   Close your eyes, he said. She heard smashing of waves against rock, thumps of hoofs on pavement, intermittent slash of the whip and the coachman clearing his throat at regular intervals, a deep cavernous sound. Pulse, pulse, syncopation. Her own heart, hushed, subdued clandestine, incognito.   Close them tight, he said then he squeezed her hand. She saw flashes of bright  in the dark, phosphorescent like will o’ the wisps in a swamp. All you see he said, will be yours. Their hands nested like Russian dolls her fist wraps a negative shape, a kernel of void. © 2022 Toti O’Brien

Marc Olmsted has appeared in City Lights Journal, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, New York Quarterly , The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and a variety of small presses. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost? , which has an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.   Olmsted's 25 year relationship with Ginsberg is chronicled in his Beatdom Books memoir Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg 1972-1997 - Letters and Recollections , available on Amazon. For more of his work, http://www.marcolmsted.com/ Could Be   Could be Tibet chased out by Mao Could be America scalped by the settlers Could be Cambodia lined up & shot Could be Selma - club cracking my skull Could be collateral damage - drone’s white silent flash  (now a wedding shoe with a stump) Could be Rwanda shot by a child Could be Dachau dreaming of bread Could be a kitten in Ukraine under rubble Could be an insect a tiny fish a baby rat Could be alive in th...

                                                                © 2022 marie c lecrivain Jeremy Cantor’s debut poetry collection, Wisteria From Seed , with a foreword by former Boston Globe arts critic Michael Manning, was published in 2015 by Kelsey Books. His work has been performed at the Boston Conservatory (set to music by composer Robert Gross) as well as in San Francisco and Tucson. Jeremy began writing after retiring from a career in laboratory chemistry. He has made and tested engine oil additives, detergents and pharmaceuticals, driven a forklift, worked in a full-body acid-proof hazmat suit, tried to keep his fingers working in a walk-in freezer at -40°F, and worked behind radiation shielding. He prefers writing.     Tamarind     I woke beneath the tree the Arabs call the Date of Ind...

  Kevin Patrick Sullivan’s books include, First Sight, The Space Between Things , Unimpaired and a number of chapbooks .  His poems are in Solo , Hummingbird , Askew , Lummox , Miramar , and Spillway among  other journals and anthologies. He Co-Founded and ran Corners of the Mouth at Linnaea’s Café, a monthly of featured and open readings for 35 years, Co-editor of Corners of the Mouth A Celebration of Thirty Years at the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival. Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Luis Obispo and the Co-founder/Curator of the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival since 1984. Camels Three legs Two humps One pyramid shaped And two flat heads What a wicked sense of humor One hump or two The sand man has You barely notice his red eyes Guiding you through this desert Of sleep this daydream Of travel                      *after the intaglio by Anne Jenkins   ...