Blue Unicorn – Volume 22, Number 1 (Oct. 1998)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Libra from an Italian book of hours/4
Joanne Lowery/Horoscope for October 3/5
Charles W. Pratt/Only Connect/6
Ruth G. Iodice/Under the Redhaw Tree/6
Nils Clausson/Late Elegy: Normandy Beach/7
Devon Miller Duggan/Pontormo: Entombment/8
Sharon Kourous/Nodding Off/9
Richard G. Reynolds/Roofing the Barn/9
Juan R Sequeira/Mestizo/10-11
Frederick Zydek/Letter to Father Henry in Bolivia/11
Kay Meier/Witness/12
Judy Kronenfeld/Summer at Seven/13
Laurence W. Thomas/Box Elder Bug/13
Wayne Hogan/Kansas/14
Tom Smith/Watching Sunrise (1)/14
Ted Florea/Relief Pitching/15
W. Dale Nelson/Villonaud for Ronald Reagan/16
James A. Garvey/Lodi Lost/
                Lemons in the Valley/17
William Delgado/Theme of Absence [translation from the Spanish of Eduardo Carranza]/18
Constance Rowell Mastores/Aftermath/19
Martha E. Bosworth/Translation/20
Dan Stryk/Grimm’s Fairy Tales/20
Nancy S. Young/Chapbook/21
Allen Strous/Rumpelstiltskin/21
Stephen Herz/Paper Yarmulke/22-23
Simon Perchik/Untitled/23
Lisa Barnett/Proofs of Absence/24
Robert King/Winter Count in Muddy River Country/24-25
Nancy Bailey Miller/Ancestry/25
Maureen Eppstein/Gettysburg/26
Le Thi Tham Van/Viet Nam on My Return/26-27
Mike Meserve/Christmas 1987/28
Jodi Varon/Lament of the Bronze Camels [translation from the Chinese of Li He]/ 28-29
William Cannon/Christmas Carols in the Great Church/29
Fred Ostrander/Dislocation/30
Notes on Contributors/31-32

Cover design features “October” from the French Book of Hours, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry,  sometimes  called the most beautiful manuscript in the world. The miniatures are painted by the Limbourg brothers c. 1413-1416. The October painting depicts an autumn scene with the Louvre of Philip Augustus, transformed and embellished by Charles V, brother of the Duke of Berry. in the background. Above each month in the series appears a blue and gold semicircle with the sign of the zodiac and the phase of the moon.