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CONTENTS
Frontispiece/Orpheus Bids Farewell to Eurydice as Hermes Prepares to Take Her to the Netherworld
Constance Rowell Mastores/Pantoum for Orpheus/3-4
Austin MacRae/An Evening Chat in John Bourroughs’ Field/6
Carol Frith/Outside/7
Alfred Dorn/Giants/8
Jeanne Wagner/Greenware/8-9
Barry Ballard/My Baltimore/10
Jeanne Wagner/Aquarius/10-11
Evelyn Ritchie/Proverb Re-Examined: “Might Makes Right”/12
Simon Perchik/Untitled/12
Kenneth Brewer/Belted Galloways/13
Rawdon Tomlinson/Sestina: The Compassionate Friends/14-15
Fred Ostrander/Departure/15
Jessica Maich/Chinese Carry Out/16
Michael L. Johnson/Daughter: A Rhapsody/16
Elisavietta Ritchie/Heidegger at the Breakfast Table/17
Martha E. Bosworth/High-Tech Heaven/18
Phillip K. Arrington/The Right Time/18-19
Kim Cushman/Haiku #5/20
Gilbert Schedler/Elvis Before Elvis/20
Raymond Barto/The Debris Field/21
Michael Cadnum/Road/21
George Held/Catalyst/22
Nancy G. Westerfield/The Way the Light Comes In/22
Robert Cooperman/Jokes/23
Ruth G. Iodice/With Wavery Wings/24
Steve Wilson/Prism/24
John Grey/When We Met/25
Nancy Scott/Christmas 1960/26
Shawn Fawson/Breakfast/26
Lisa Barnett/Vegetable Love/27
Tom Riley/The Inner Novelist/27
Marc Widershien/Jacob/28
Holly Day/Unsent Letter/28-29
Paul Humphrey/Check Mate/29
Robert Necker/Untitled Haiku/30
Lynda Riese/Racing the Sky/30
Contributors/31-32
Our cover features the first tapestry of the series “The Lady With The Unicorn,” now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They are believed to have been commissions by Jean de Cabannes-Vandenesse in honor of his fiancée Claude de Vista, and executed c. 1509-1513. Rilke became familiar with them on his visits to the Cluny, and no one has written more passionately about them. “There are tapestries Abalone, wall tapestries . . . There are six tapestries . . .. How quiet they are, are they not? There is little variety in them. There is always the oval blue island, floating in the subdued red background . . . all flowery and inhabited by little animals . . . [Each tapestry] has always one figure in it, a lady, in various costumes, but always the same . . . and always there are the heraldic animals, large, on the island . . . on the left a lion, and on the right, so clear, the unicorn. They carry the same pennants, which show high above them three silver moons ascendant in a blue chevron on a red field.”
Since our own unicorn, though blue, follows the tradition of the tapestry unicorn, and Rilke’s words about the unicorn, we decided to present three of the tapestries on our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Volume of Blue Unicorn. Rilke says, “Will you begin with the first? . . . . She is feeding the falcon. The bird is in her gloved hand and it stirs. She is watching it and at the same time dipping into the bowl . . .. to offer it something . . . ”
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