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

    Joseph A Farina is a retired lawyer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada  Several of his poems have been published in various online journals.. He has two books of poetry published— T he Cancer Chronicles and The Ghosts of Water Street . it was exhilarating upon that ancient battlement above the Tuscan valley below the towers of San Gimignano under the massive stone walls where weeds now reign tourists gathered Nikons in hand where once battle steeds stamped and siege engines creaked on that afternoon the sun brushed gold upon the the still green autumn leaves the vendemmia completed the remaining naked vines leading upto higher ground where single towers dotted our panorama monetary requirements called us home the swaying Tuscan cypresses silhouetted by the setting Florentine sun sweet upon our memory the half remembered days recorded in kodachromtic brilliance as if we were there yesterday.   © 2022 Joseph A. Farina  

© 2022 marie c lecrivain “Born in Sydney. Been living in the UK since '98. I first began to write poetry from my 17th birthday and have diverse influences ranging far and wide. Some of my poetry and the very odd short story has been published in zines, chapbooks, serials and anthologies in several countries for over 30 years.” A2B we waited for the bus but there was no bus stop, just 2 faded words - “B ST…” large and painted yellow that one could barely make out on the busy road and so we waited… wondering if a bus would appear and when it did it looked old and with a route number I wasn’t familiar with. we got on and while paying the fare I looked at the seated passengers talking with a rural slowness & ease - a way that people don’t tend to talk anymore and when I enquired with the bus driver about this unfamiliar service, she responds in an unhurried way before I find a seat the sound of the idling engine rem...

  Christina Hoag was travelling before she was even born. Slated to enter the world in Zambia, she made her grand debut in New Zealand. Three weeks later, she moved to Fiji. She's been travelling ever since, growing up in seven countries and living in three more as a foreign correspondent. She is the author of novels Girl on the Brink and Skin of Tattoos , novellas Law of the Jungle and The Blood Room . Her short stories and essays have appeared in literary reviews including Lunch Ticket, Toasted Cheese and Shooter , and have won several awards. For more information: https://christinahoag.com matches rattle a scrape a spark the acrid scent of another cigarette for another sleepless traveller floorboards creak with unknown footsteps mice squeak  as they pitter-patter   farts and sneezes the doorbell buzzes necesito dormir unas horas a stoned gringo stammers lights flash toilets flush a baby wails rocking rhythm  of a coupling on a coilspring mattress through ...

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...

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.  "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” ― George R.R. Martin, Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones Call no man “stranger” who knows his own heart.  The caravan fires burn like pyres to the day’s dreams, red dreams in which one looks so intently  as to be lost in the silence of one’s own thoughts as each strays from the song played before all.  The ashen daydreams brought by each one like an offering to cast to the flames and betrayed in a  gleaming behind the depth of eyes alone. Not a reflection of the circle’s fire like starlight  microcosmed but one’s...

Bio: Michael Dean Clark is an author of fiction and literary nonfiction whose essays have most recently appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Angel City Review, The Other Journal, Punctuate , and The Jabberwock Review among others. He lives and writes in Southern California. Follow him on Twitter at @MDeanClark.   A Small Compensation The last time I went fishing, I was 13 and with my dad, dropping lines into a glass-topped lake reflecting the Eastern Sierras of Kings Canyon at portrait quality. Around us the air hung drenched in post-modern silence: not a car or plane or mechanical noise in earshot. The sun dipped toward the tops of the peaks to our west and the hope was fresh fish for the dinner fire Mom was building at our back country campsite.  The scene should have been an ad for the National Parks or Hamms Beer. It could have been, except almost everything about that moment was painful.  When I should have been enthralled with the gift wilderness hiking has always been for m...

  Kenneth Hickey was born in 1975 in Cobh, Co. Cork Ireland. He served in the Irish Naval Service between 1993 and 2000. His poetry and prose has been published in various literary journals in Ireland, the UK and the United States including Southword, Crannoig, THE SHOp, A New Ulster, Aesthetica Magazine and The Great American Poetry show . His writing for theatre has been performed in Ireland, the UK, New York and Paris.  He has won the Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award as well as being shortlisted for The PJ O’Connor Award and the Tony Doyle Bursary.  His work in film has been screened at the Cork and Foyle Film Festivals. He holds a BA and MA in English Literature both from University College Cork.  His debut collection ‘ The Unicycle Paradox’ was published by Revival Press in November 2021. He still resides in Cork. Metro Watching strangers kiss on the platform Of Odeon Metro Each street, each corner Of that fabled city, named for a lovelorn Trojan,  as h...