Blue Unicorn – Volume 21, Number 1 (Oct. 1997)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/“Wild Goose Chase”[Detail from Quilt V]
George Singer/The Wild Geese/5-6
Ionna-Veronika Warwick/My Father’s Dream/6
Kenneth Pobo/Question for Wilde/7
R. H. Morrison/On Looking at a T’ang Painting/7
David Smith-Ferri/Landscape is Language/8
Beth Houston/The Root Witch/8-9
Adam J. Sorkin and Frank Despriet/The Bayonet [translation from the Flemish of Eugene Van Itterbeek]/10
Tovah S. Yavin/Rachel’s Lullaby/
                Question for Rachel’s Surgeon/11
Bruce Berlind and Maria Korosy/Christian Humanity [translation from the Hungarian of Gyula Illyés]/12
Judy Klare/Lepenski Vir/12
Michael Scofield/Ode to Galisteo/13
Dina Coe/The Hidden Shore/14
Charles Edward Mann/Aunt Mary’s/15
Ann Harrington/A Poem for Brother Franklin on His 44th Birthday/15
Kate Bertrand/Hybrid Vigor/16
William Fahey/Lettuce/17
John Mucci/Bound Homeward/18
Rhina P. Espaillat/Hummingbird/19
Ila F. Berry/Nocturne/19
Fred Ostrander/Stain, Scar, Sky/20
Norman Kraeft/Mirrors/20
Tom Hibbard/The Just Nights [translation from the French of René Char]/21
Roger Ladd Memmott/The Universe/21
Martha E. Bosworth/An Illumination of Jellyfish/22
Jack Lindeman/Perfectionist/22
Lori Shpunt/Daughter Wish/23
Ida Fasel/The Meeting/23
Charles Edward Mann/Jaime/24
Alfred Dorn/Too Early/25
Walter McDonald/The Neighbors/25
Roger G. Van Cleave/Sunset―Herndon, IA 1979/26
David Leightty/Edges/26-27
Irene Barnard/View From a Plane to Guatemala/27
Ruth G. Iodice/Saint Francis/28
William Virgil Davis/Another Year/28
Jane Autenrieth Chapman/Folding and Unfolding/29
Mark Mitchell/Villanelle With a Line from the Gospel of Thomas/30

Cover Design features an illustration from the “Satirical Papyrus,” which parodies scenes in the “Book of the Dead.” It dates from the Graeco-Roman period and depicts the souls of the dead playing draughts.