Blue Unicorn – Volume 24, Number 1 (Oct. 2000)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Tao-Chi/Drunk in Autumn Woods
Duane Niatum/Under the Bear-Changing Cloud/5
Susan Terris/The Color of Tomorrow/6
Robert Eastwood/The Blue Shed/7
Joyce Odam/Legend/8
ellen/Dry as Paste/9
Maureen Eppstein/Memory/Rain/10
Deborah Warren/Air in August/10
Allen Strous/All Land, All Views/11
Jean Esteve/The Quay at Sausalito/12
Constance Rowell Mastores/Medieval Speculations on a Name/12
William Aiken/Letting On/13
Cynthia L. Haven/Piccarda Dei Donati/14-15
Daniel J. Langton/Beef, Organ-Pipe, Brain and Staghorn/15
B.Z. Niditch/Dutch Memory/16
Jeanne Wagner/Muzot, June 1924 [translation from the French of Rainer Maria Rilke]/16
Deborah Warren/Laura, at Thirteen/17
Ryan G. Van Cleave/Glass Children/17
Sharon Kourous/Alchemy/18
Anne Marple/Capability Brown Rivals Mother Nature/18
Charles Edward Eaton/Fairweather Friends/19
Juan R. Sequeira/Mother’s Prayer/21
Martha E. Bosworth/Twilight of the Gods/20
Joan Ellen Ketrys/When the Tomatoes Are Ripe/20
Maggie Morley/Wandering Minstrel/21
Tom Hansen/Anna/22
Rachel Dacus/Other Fathers/22-23
Dan Campion/Cornell at Cornell/23
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/24
John L. Stanizzi/Frogs at Night/24
David Rosenthal/Our Part in It/25
Fred Ostrander/Discovery I and Il/26-27
Jill Williams/A Sister’s Regret/27
Constance Rowell Mastores/To My Grandmother in Darkness/28-29
A. Schaffner/On Reading Memos, Thoughts of Retirement/29
Joyce Odam/Chair-Study in Rust-Blue Light/30
Notes on Contributors/31-32

Our Cover Design features “Allegory of Chastity,” a painting attributed to Giorgione c. 1500. Here, a beautiful young woman is presented with a unicorn’s head resting in her lap. It was said that the unicorn, a symbol of chastity itself, favored young virgins.