Blue Unicorn – Volume 28, Number 3 (Jun. 2005)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Edward Boccia/The Blue Table
Edward Boccia/The Fresco/5
Duane Niatum/View From the Basement of the Mind/6
Daniel J. Langton/Then Again/7
Thomas P. Feeny/The Prisoner [translation from the Spanish of an unknown poet]/7
Tom Riley/Covering His Ears/8
Robert Lowenstein/Son et Lumière/8
Kevin Hadduck/Moonstruck/9
Susan McLean/Epigrams, 9.81 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/10
Art Schwartz/Pliny to Suetonius, on This Phenomenon, the Christiani/10
Ronald J. Pelias/Her Baby/11
Mordecai Marcus/Passover Long Ago/12-13
B. Z. Niditch/The Wagon Bed/13
John F. Marabach/What Sorrow Knows Without Us/14
John Nixon, Jr./Among the Folders/15
Fred Ostrander/Battle Painting/15
Laurence W. Thomas/Mistaken Identities/16
Wendy Videlock/This Small Rude Town/16
Bethany Schroeder/Covenant/17
Ginny Grimsley/Walt Whitman’s Wife/18-19
Helga Sandburg/Your Deadness/20
Alexis Levitin/Three Poems From Dual [translations from the Portuguese of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen]/20-21
Dan Campion/11:11/21
Laura Puryear Finnell/One Fathom/22
A. D. Winans/Chinatown Sweat Shop/23
Esther Cameron/Bear Station/23
Leland Jamieson/A Modest Hope/24
S. Brady Tucker/Zippers and Hand Grenades/24-25
Robert Stern/To the Memory of Leonard Michaels/26
Terry L. Persun/Life Moves Slowly/26-27
John Hart/Tree Farm/27
Robin Schechtman/Twilight/28
Susan Strayer/Lilac-Scented/28
Richard H. Behm/The Angelus at St. Stanislaus/29
John Grey/Breakup in Winter/30
Ray Skjelbred/Discovering That Maxine Kumin Has Begun a Recent Poem with the Same Words as One of Mine/31
Daniel J. Langton/A Little Pool/31
Merrill Philip Malkerson/Fugue in Asia Minor/32
Judy Klare/One Room/32-33
Evelyn Ritchie/The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things/33
Li C. Tien and John Palen/West Lake [translation from the Chinese of Ouyang Xiu]/34
Michael Cadnum/Drake Home/34-35
James Den Boer/Four Directions/35
Ruth G. Iodice/The Cedar Tree at Maplewood Circle/36
Gryphon Glass Panel/37
Friends of Blue Unicom/38
Notes on Contributors/39-40

About our Cover Design: The Stained Glass Unicorn and its companion piece, The Gryphon (see p. 37), were purchased at auction from the Fehn estate in Evansville, Indiana, some 45 years ago. They measure 8″ x 8.5”. They are from the collection of Ira William and Ann Work.