Blue Unicorn – Volume 23, Number 1 (Oct. 1999)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Wild Iris and Helmet Rock/4
Six Honorable Mentions from Blue Unicorn’s Eighteenth Annual Contest:
Cynthia L. Haven/In the Old Hampstead Churchyard/5-6
       Juan R. Sequeira/Mitch/6
       Kate Bertrand/Free/7
       Jeanne Wagner/The Magnolia Tree/8-9
       Joan Marella/The Bass Player/9
       Joanne Lowery/Green Stick: Grass/10-11
Judith Tate O’Brien/Hands/11
Lucille Lang Day/After the Earthquake/12
Paul Malamud/Warm Rain/13
Martha E. Bosworth/War Generation/13
Constance Rowell Mastores/Roots of the Olive Tree/14
Vincent O’Neill/Another Question/14
Jason Ranek/Last Words to Thuy Nguyen/15
David Stephenson/Behind the Mask/16
Jean Aberlin/Empty Nest/17
Gail Segal/Untitled [translation from the Italian of Alfredo de Palchi]/17
Laurence W. Thomas/Love Poem/18
Ida Fasel/Son Seeking Enlightenment/18
Marjorie Power/Faith in the Color Turquoise/19
Peter Desy/Aunt Irene/19
Matthew Brennan/Christmas Eve, 1996/20
Ruth G. Iodice/Springerle/21
Michael Scofield/Home/21
W. Dale Nelson/Alexander Gardner: September 19-22, 1862/22
Fred Ostrander/Directions (3)/23
Sharon Kourous /October’s Trees/23
Susan Terris/African Queen/24
Tom Hansen/Smoke From Under the Earth/25
Kathleen Hellen/I’m Leaving This House/25
Wayne Hogan/Closer Than They Appear/26
Walter McDonald/Turn Around, Turn Around/26
Bonnie Nelson/Simple Mathematics/27
Stephen Herz/Loot/28
David Rosenthal/At Thirty/28
Vyt Bakaitis/Returning Home [translation from the Lithuanian of Julius Keleras]/29
Jennifer McPherson/The Bone Poem/30
Notes on Contributors/31-32

The cover design features “Yellow Pansies (Viola Pedunculata) and Mission Dolores” by artist H. Arding from the cover of  A Calendar for 1899, published by Sanborn, Vail & Co.