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

Tim Tipton was first seduced by the craft of poetry when he read the "Panther" by Rainier Maria Rilke. He has written poetry that has been featured in ART/LIFE , Askew , The San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly , and the on-line journal poeticdiversity . Tim is a graduate of California State University of Northridge where he received a Bachelor of Science in Sociology. He also received a degree in Substance Abuse counseling. Naked    You wake me with your pale smooth body    and your chicken pox scar     the shape of snake river    The window stands open     a draft of air hits our ankles     I relish watching the moonlight  going out across your back as   you sleep perfectly still, unwavering  Your head rests between your shoulders   My eyes sparkle...

  Jan Steckel left a busy pediatric practice caring for mostly Spanish-speaking children to work as a poet, writer, and medical copyeditor. She is Jewish, bisexual, and disabled by chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Assaracus and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California. Machetazos Today Benita Miller de Robinson will carry water with one arm. She will cook cassava root and sweet potato and yams in an iron pot over illegally made charcoal. She will clean the house and brush all the dirt out the front door with a homemade broom. She will empty her second-to-youngest son out of the dish-washing tub so she can wash the dishes. She will beat her clothes and t...

  © 2023 marie c lecrivain Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English, who has been writing poems exclusively in English since 1993. His work has been published in over one hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the U.K, U.S. and elsewhere, most recently in Poetry New Zealand and New Contrast (South Africa). He lives in Venice, Italy. The Layers   Riding down the road, in the wind which brings and scatters things, I was passing by the car park which was once a courtyard, my mother told me, where her grandmother’s mare was buried. She always brought grandma home  trotting on her own ...

  © 2023 marie c lecrivain Robert S. King lives in Athens, GA. His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines, including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Hollins Critic, Kenyon Review, Main Street Rag, Midwest Quarterly, Negative Capability, Southern Poetry Review , and Spoon River Poetry Review . He has published eight poetry collections, most recently Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020). His personal website is www.robertsking.info . Bird’s Eye View of Flying South   In the wild fall of paradise they rise, rainbows of feathers and leaves free-flapping on an autumn breeze, flocks streaking the sky on a southbound, fleeing wind.   B ut across the shadow border of skyscrapers, birds weave through mazes of power lines and windshields. Almost captiv...

  Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Dulce Domum You can’t hide your hideway when beggars come calling; every haven has its day, every port and refuge; the cold tomorrows come out of the distance like icebergs, unstable as emperors,  demanding as children and food for thought  feeds no one. Your secret place, your kingly manse? Don’t board up all the doors, your earthly paradise  has a few snakes inside and minstrels and other rabble wait outside to knock down all. You alone unhidden unbidden stand prominent as a sequoia, Simon of the stele. Revelation is God’s alone; hidden in the deep, his submarine love discovers all secret places; you are naked as  a jaybird in his sight. So cast it all away, armed in your own flesh go voyaging. Surrender is a place impregnable and portable as heaven.  © 2022 Jack D. H...

Max Kerwien is a poet and comedian. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. In 2016, he won the Joan Grayston Poetry Prize. In 2018, he published his first collection of poetry, Poems to Ruin Dinner With . His work has been published in the decomp Journal , the DASH Literary Journal, and more. Butchery Lane Canterbury in a hurry, sleet-covered feet a flurry on the brown brick road, snow set in the ridges of the pattering stone, thin homes line the street like the hills of North Downs, hustling bodies a blurry crowd, faces not quite a frown but a phase, their dimples a curving maze, forehead lines point to the day’s end when the lane, abandoned by wayfarers, prepares lantern gold light for its evening rite, the day caked on by a pane of flaky snow base, refreshing the stones for tomorrow’s race. © 2022 Max Kerwien Congestion On the train ride there is a turn in the tracks and around the bend if you are sitting on the right side the city w...