Blue Unicorn – Volume 14, Number 1 (Oct. 1990)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Walther von der Vogelweide [from the Manesse Codex]
Rosalie Moore/The Troubadour/5-6
Laura Anna Stortoni/On Pollaiolo’s Portrait of a Renaissance Woman/6
Mark Johnston/Afterthoughts of Grendel’s Mother /7
Margaret Ward Morland/Balade of Chaucer/8
Daniel J. Langton/Well, Then/9
Robert McGovern/My Fifteen-¥ ear-Old Takes His First Flying Lesson/9
N. Gabbard/Against the Romantic Agony [translation from the German of Heinrich Heine]/10
Gwendolyn Vincent/Renaissance Clock/10
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/11
Lois Sargent/These Things/11
Ruth Lisa Schechter/Zone 4/12
Laurence W. Thomas/Making Waves/13
Richard Welin/Blue Anemones/[translation from the Swedish of Tomas Tranströmer)/13
Joseph S. Salemi/Villanelle for Sigmund Freud/
                The Pilanderer Explains His Technique with Married Women/14-15
Edward Zlotkowski/Northern Landscape/15
Joan Halperin/Aunt Billie/16
Phyllis Sterling Smith/Ferris Wheel/16
Gary Pacernick/For Chinu and Manoj/17
Shirley Graham/Rage Born/17
W. R.Wilkins/Halley’s Comet/18-19
Tina Kelley/Out These Shiny Windows/
                You Can’t See When You’re Home/19
Joseph Harris/The Wounds of Winter/20
Tom Riley/Call It Time/20
Lenard D. Moore/Untitled Haiku/21
Myron Ernst/Wife in the Mural at Pompeii/21
Brett Ralph/Where Are You Now Chuck Taylor?/22
Harold Witt/Henry Evans/22
Nancy G. Westerfield/78
RPM/23
Bert Almon/One O’Clock Jump/23
Melanie Gause Harris/For My Husband’s Friend, Randy/24-25
Carol Ra/Grandmother’s Room/25
Jay Griswold/Ashes/26
Kathleen Thomas/A Rare Peace/26
Judson Crews/They Closed the Door Over the Glass Dome in the Rothko Chapel/27
Michael Cadnum/Geese Guard the Abbey Ruins/27
Greg Kuzma/Eventually/28-29
Laura Kasischki Siers/The  Cyclone 2/29
George Keithley/The Pleading Child/30
Notes on Contributors/31-32
Cover Design by Robert L. Bradley, using Unicorn Design from the Horn of Ulf. The Horn of Ulf is considered by scholars to be one of the most remarkable relics in unicorn lore. The drinking horn was presented to York Minster (formerly St. Peter’s) in the Ninth Century by Prince Ulf, of Deira, as a token of the bequest of all his lands to the Church. The stylized designs carved on the horn are ancient and Euphratean in origin, and reflect the Byzantine influence on Scandinavian art, which may have resulted from commerce through overland trade routes or by Scythian traders plying the northern seas with their wares.