Blue Unicorn – Volume 29, Number 1 (Oct. 2005)

Description

CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Marvin A. Ehrlich/Paging Sophia Loren
Edward D. Paul/Paging Sophia Loren/5
Stanley Noyes/The Solitary Reaper, Two Trains/ 6-7
Jon Frankel/Patience/8
Laurence W. Thomas/Premonitions/8
Joan Marella/Desert Vision/9
Michael Graves/To Socrates/10
Linda Goodman Robiner/Naked Need/10
Susan Terris/Egret Tree/11
B. Z. Niditch/By the Charles River Basin/12
Ronald Wallace/The Enemy/12-13
Art Schwartz/Spider in My Tub/13
Zilka Joseph/Armchair/14
Ruth G. Iodice/Sightings: The Lord God Bird/15
Stephen Scaer/Water/15
Paul Benton/The Old Man’s Coat/16
Paul Malamud/Dinner/16
Stephen McDonald/St. Sebastian/17
Joanne Lowery/Villanelle in Small Sharp Pieces/18
Tom Riley/Armies Advance/19
Katherine Smith/Solstice/19
Donald Everett Axinn/Wind Dancers/20
Duane Niatum/Shadow Playing in the Villa Borghese/20
Michael Curtis/Hand/21
Frank Osen/Hotel Du Grand Miroir/21
Marianne Tancor/The Alchemist/22
Arlene Zide/The Ruins of Kapilvastu [translation from the Hindi of Gagan Gill]/23
John Hart/The Lunatics [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/23
Marion Shore/Nealce [translation from the Latin of Petronius Arbiter]/24
Evalyn Torrant/Snow in Late Winter/24
Phyllis Henry-Jordan/The Man of La Mancha/25
Charles Guenther/Shedding/26
Don Kimball/Mid-Autumn, Exposed/26-27
Robin Chapman/During/27
Constance Rowell Mastores/Willow Song Among the Leonids/28-29
John Palen/An Easy Death [translation from the German of Heinz Czechowski/29
Judi A. Rypma/Aunt Olive’s Willow/30-31
Elisavietta Ritchie/House Lions/31
Charles Edward Eaton/The River Channel/32
Taylor Graham/Without Telling/32-33
Leland Jamieson/Twelfth of July/33
Caleb Brooks/The Aging Geisha’s Bath/34
Catherine Chandler/Fatuity/34
Allegra Jostad Silberstein/Psalm/35
Edward Boccia/Eight Painters/36
Joseph A. Chelius/Helper/37
James Michael Robbins/Adoration of the Alcoholic/37
Fred Ostrander/Old Shipwreck/38
Notes on Contributors/39-40

Our Cover Design features a painting of St. Justine of Antioch, by Moretta da Brescia (1498-1554). The saint is shown with a palm branch and the sacred unicorn, symbol of her chastity. With her is the donor of the painting.