Blue Unicorn – Volume 30, Number 1 (Oct. 2006)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Borgund Stave Church, Sogn, Norway
Tom Galusha/What Fate the Autumn Brings/5
Christopher Brewer/Geese Returning/6
Judith Wilkinson/An Angel Flew Away [translation from the Dutch of Toon Tellegen)/6
Elisavietta Ritchie/Another Graveyard by the Sea/7
Jerry Sexton/The Master Plan/8
Art Schwartz/Deceit/8
Kendra Kopelke/Snow Day/9
Charles W. Pratt/Dark Wings/10
Stuart Dodds/Retired/10
Terence Culleton/A Wing and a Prayer/11
B. Z. Niditch/Boston Common/12
Walter Rodriguez/New Jersey/12-13
Richard Luftig/George Washington’s Bridge/13
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/14
Lyn Stefenhagens/Upstairs/14
Don Kimball/Solitary Bird/15
Frank Miller/Sleep is a Gifted Thing/15
John McGonigle/Untitled/16
Jay Johnson/Cassandra/17
Doug Ramspeck/Swamp Wedding/17
Emily Vizzo/Creek Poem/18
Susan McLean/Zero-Sum/18
John Hart/The Hospital (A Doodle in Triple Rhythm)/19
Joanne Lowery/Hell/19
Gary L. Lark/Osprey/20
Susan Oleferuk/Early Piece /20
The First Harold Witt Memorial Awards/21
Michael A. Flanagan/Alone With the Wind /22
Daniel J. Weeks/It Is Come/23
Shari O’Brien/Alive/23
Jaen Howard/Basement Office Creations/24
Mary F. C. Pratt/Like Bugs and Weeds/24-25
Steffen Horstmann/Memory/25
Lenore Mayhew/In the Library Thinking of Sappho/26
Mark Taksa/Free of the Bird’s Beak/26
William F. Bell/The Icon/27
Ann Harrington/Remembering the Monastery: A Beginning /28
Linda Goodman Robiner/Bending Light/28-29
James Doyle/In Our Back Yard/29
Natasha Borovsky /Tamburlaine/30-31
Dan Campion/Confessional Poem/31
Gabriela Anaya Valdepefia/Eulogy for Myself/32
Sally Allen McNall/Strip/32-33
John Elsberg/The Bogart Foil/33
Alice Park/Sonnet to Helen [after Pierre de Ronsard, 1524-1585]/34
Kenneth Pobo/Blue Train/34-35
Chris Crittenden/Mariposa Lily and White Spider/35
Mark Wekander /To Jack Kampmann [translation from the Danish of Simon Grotrian)/36
Charles McCauley/Poet Talk/36
Laurence W. Thomas/Postulation/37
Doris Watts/Toad Sings to Her Daughters/37
Fred Ostrander/After the Play/38
Notes on Contributors/39-40

Our cover features a fifteenth-century Italian painting, probably from a marriage chest, illustrating chastity enthroned. At her side are Diana, goddess of the hunt, and the unicorn.