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

© 2022 marie c lecrivain Jackie Chou is a poet of Japanese short form poetry and free verses from Southern California who gets her inspiration from both her inner world and outer surroundings. Besides writing, she loves to watch the news, Jeopardy, and talent competitions on TV. A Kaleidoscopic Dreamscape The cat shakes off bits of jacaranda  in fear of becoming prey to the purple feline eater Meanwhile a magician pulls cubic zirconia  from a green velvet hat Lavender blossoms  carpet the asphalt road Traces of amethyst shine in the eyes of the chivalrous  whose apples fall skyward who prefer meringue to lemon filling  cats over dogs dressed as old jukebox  favorite songs devoid of gray exuberance © 2022 Jackie Chou

Lisa Marguerite Mora has been published widely including in Chiron Review, Rattle, Literary Mama, Public Poetry Series, California Quarterly, Rebelle Society, Serving House Journal, Galway Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, semifinalist Tom Howard Poetry Contest 2020, First Place winner Micro Fiction for Dandelion Press. Nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. She can be contacted through https://www.lisamargueritemora.com where she offers literary services.   by Lisa Marguerite Mora         I FIRST HEARD the song “Hips Don’t Lie” while driving through the Cotswolds. I'm sitting in the back seat utterly charmed by thatched roofed elven houses as they wind past, curve upon curve in a stately green and cobblestone procession. My partner, I’ll call him MP, is driving and his eighty-year-old mother is riding shotgun. We are taking her back to her home in the south of England. Am in a bit of a trance. The road is rain wet. It's winte...

Terry McCarty has been writing poetry in, around (and sometimes about) ,Southern California since 1997. He has been published in anthologies including T he Long Way Home: The Best of the Little Red Books , So Luminous The Wildflowers , 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Poetry at Coffee Cartel and A Poet is A Poet No Matter How Tall Episode II: Attack of The Poems . Terry’s books include Hollywood Poetry: 2001-2013, and From Obscurity With Love . everything's big when you're small: the Jack Tar Motor Hotel restaurant with the window view onto the swimming pool Stewart Beach where my grandfather and I took a rented float  out onto the waves and I swallowed salt water for the first time  and spit it out fast the apocalyptic argument my older brother had with everyone else in the car because he was forced to vacation with the rest of the family at the age of sixteen instead of seeing his girlfriend back home and, on the beach, my dad pointed to the pillbox installed to prot...

                                                                                       photo by The Independent Howard Sage’s poetry and prose has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review , Poetry Quarterly , and recently in Dissident Voice . He has contributed several pieces to The New York Times Metropolitan Diary column. He received first prize in the Greenburgh, New York annual poetry competition. His interview with Ralph Ellison is part of the Ellison papers. He hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway, Ireland. I’m Merle—you don’t need to know my so-called “last” or family name. All you need to know is that I’ve had more than enough of sea vistas and lobster traps. And why not? I’ve ensconced myself here for umpteen years, ok, nine of them, and I will leave tomorrow, so I...

      I have not, as many other people have, and with the exception of a weekend in Ventura, and a round trip drive to Sacramento, CA to pick up our newest feline overlord (both done in 2020),  traveled since before the pandemic. The news media is chock full of stories of people behaving badly, especially on planes, and even as we speak, several major airlines continue to cancel hundreds of already booked flights due to an employee shortage.        This of course, along with financial constraints (money comes and goes, more going than coming), are the reasons, for which I personally have put off any travel plans. That doesn’t mean I can’t travel in other ways, including my favorite way; reading books.        I’ve always appreciated Rick Lupert’s travel volumes, from We Put Things in Our Mouths ( © 2009 Ain’t Got No Press), to Hunka Hunka Howdy ( © 2019 Ain’t Got No Press). Lupert, p...

                                                                             Piazza San Marco with the Basilica  (1720) by  Canaletto Gareth Roi Jones is a member of the Dandylion Collective, a small writers' group based in South Australia. In 2014, he co-edited the Friendly Street Poets Anthology 38 The Infinite Dirt ... & again in 2020, titled, simply, Q (you remember the weirdness of that year, you get why) ... as well as judging the Saeta Awards. In 2019, he had two chapbooks published; The Soft Hummus of Shleep & The Loam of Our Dreams ; in 2012, a solo collection,  Gunyah .  The 1000 Ways to San Marco Piazza my love lives in Dorsoduro ; I, in Castello ; & every evening ; she promises to meet me ; in San Marco’s Piazza at sunset ; she says if we find each o...

  “I began doing art projects on my first day in preschool, and never stopped. The first art piece I created was a cat of living fire. Later, I found out that being exists in the goetia , has the name Vapula and rules the arts. I was raised, being pulled all over the place, city to city; thus, I consider myself from nowhere. I currently work in a corporate environment, and although "technically", and legally, I can’t be persecuted for being involved in the occult, it’s been my experience that such things do happen with made up reasons.”                                                                         © 2022 Justo Deletrorre © 2022 Justo Deletrorre

                                                                                    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...