Blue Unicorn – Volume 30, Number 2 (Feb. 2007)

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01CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Detail from a Crucifix, First Half of the Fourteenth Century
Jane Glazer/In The Chapel of  San  Giovanelli/5-6
Constance Rowell Mastores/Persephone/6
William Fabrycki/The Snow Hiker/7
Quincy Bragg/My Contemporaries/8
Alexis Levitin/Salt of the Earth [translation from the Portuguese of Eugenio de Andrade]/8
David Pratt/Finishing Touches/9
Jean Esteve/Foggy Morning /10
John Hart/Mocker/11
J. A. Kimball/Spring Ahead/11
Matthew Brennan/Regarding The Old Poets, After The Reading/12
Austin MacRae/Wood/12
Frederick Davis/Listen!/13
Bill Lyons/The Hard Sounds of Selling/14
Allen Lee Ireland/Mad Bucket/15
Judith R. Robinson/Dear Jim/15
John Grey/Making Love In Front of the Fire/16
William Zander/Untitled/17
Jane Stuart/The Magic Garden/17
Nancy G. Westerfield/Willa Cather Reading Colette/18
Laurence W. Thomas/Cold Night/18-19
Fred Ostrander/Horst, Your Painting/19
Jack Crawford/Here I Am/20
Ryan G. Van Cleave/Night Raid, Raleigh, NC―April 24, 1865/21
Chris Bullard/Tuscaloosa 1959/21
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/22
George Held/Rain and Tyrants [translation from the French of Jules Supervielle] /22
Joel Murray/Breath of Ghosts, Strange Beasts/23
Li C. Tien and John Palen/West Village [translation from the Chinese of Lu You] /24
Judi A. Rypma/Fiji’s Blue Lagoons/24-25
Margaret H. Brooks/Dark of the Meadow in My Hand/25
Tom Galusha/Little-Known Sequel/26
Linda Rothstein/Grandpa’s Teeth/26
Candace Orcutt/Alice to Cat/27
Linda Taylor/After Reading That Pit Bulldogs Mauled to Death a Child Walking Home through a Neighbor’s Yard/27
Vince Clemente/My Father Is Dying Piecemeal/28
Mitchell Metz/Size Matters/28-29
Lance Lee/Brown Is  the Color of/29
C. L. Guenther/Shedding/30
Notes on Contributors/31-32

Our Cover Design features a large porcelain dish made in the Kiangsu Province of China during the Yüan Dynasty. It depicts in blue decoration the unicorn and the phoenix in a scene of flowers and clouds.