Blue Unicorn – Volume 22, Number 2 (Feb. 1999)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Jean Lurçat/L’eau et le feu/4
Sharon Kourous/Hale Bopp/5
William Fabrycki/The Visit Home/6
Nancy S. Young/Viewpoint/7
G. W. Clift/New Year’s Eve With Aging Parents/7
Martha E. Bosworth/Aftermath/8
Lee Steuer/Building  a New Jerusalem/ 8
John Hart/All Saints’ Day/9
Six Honorable Mention Winners in Blue Unicorn’s Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest:
Deborah Narin-Wells/The Sideboard/10
Claire J. Baker/Wednesday/11
Kurt J. Fickert/Jogging Into Day at Coco Beach/11
Robert Ottman/At 78/12
Priscilla Frake/Climbing the Small Hill at Craigbank Farm/13
Joan Swift/Marie Taglione/14
Tom Hibbard/Surprise From Above [translation from the French of Pierre Reverdy] /15
                Dawn [translation from the French of Paul Eluard]/15
Frederick Zydek/Boy in an Old Brown Photograph/16
Donald Everett Axinn/By This Creek, This Otter Creek/17
Richard Luftig/Coming Home From the Urologist/17
Laurence W. Thomas/Pyramid/18
Jane McClellan/Southwind Camp/18-19
Michael T. Young/To My Brother, Who Died Before I Was Born/20
Matthew J. Spireng/The Goalie/21
Rhina P. Espaillat/Solstice/22
Dawn McDuffie/Parakeet/22
Jodi Varon/Lyric for the Duster Dance: A Poem Against Mortality [translation from the Chinese of Li He/23
Matthew Brennan/Rufino Tamayo’s Waiting Woman/24
Joseph S. Salemi/Ixion’s Apologia From the Wheel/24
Kenneth Pobo/Coreopsis Intelligence/25
Ruth G. Iodice/At Maryhaven/26
Michael P. McManus/Northern Lights/26
James Doyle/The Castle/27
Rea Nolan Martin/Mismatch/28
Fred Ostrander/Directions (1)/28
Elizabeth Biller Chapman/Neither Can the Floods Drown It/29
Robert Necker/Heard in the Woods/30
Bruce Berlind and Maria Korosy/To Those Who Dread War [translation from the Hungarian of Gyula Illyés]/30
Notes on Contributors/31-32

The cover design features “February” from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a French Book of Hours with a miniature for each month of the year. Painted by the three Limbourg brothers c. 1413-1416, the month of February depicts a winter scene on the farm with peasants.