Blue Unicorn – Volume 31, Number 2 (Feb. 2008)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Edward E. Boccia/Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Edward E. Boccia/Notches in the Skin and A Towel for the Blood/5-6
Andrew Grossman/Gritted Prayer/7
Stanley Noyes/Only Boys, Only Men/7
Dan Sklar/Working/8-9
Tom Galusha/Tempt Not the Tempest/9
Marc Widershien/The Elm on Penniman Road/10
Rick Anthony Furtak/Sonnets to Orpheus 1.05 [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/10
William F. Bell/The Rescue/11
Gloria Chun/Missing From the Family Album (From Post-War Korea)/12-13
Simon Perchik/Untitled/13
Joseph S. Salemi/Collateral Casualty/14
D. G. B. Featherkile/Ancestors Saying Cheese from the Family Album/14
Beau Boudreaux/There’s a Stranger in the House/15
Judith R. Robinson/Winter/16
Mitchell Metz/Burnt Umber/16
Roger Desy/― a pair/17
Swiftwalker/Mara/18
Charles W. Pratt/What Is Left/19
Evalyn Torrant/Betrayal/19
Lyn Stefenhagens/The Giraffe/20
Matthew J.  Spireng/Alive/21
B. Z. Niditch/The Cardinal/21
Kevin Hadduck/A Visit Home/22
J. A. Kimball/Coupling―a Triolet/23
Myron Ernst/Lo, a Lawn/23
Don Kimball/What Goes Around Stays the Night/24
Barbara Rhodes/I Wear Her Dress/24
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/25
Robert M. Shelby/I Heard a Dulcimer Once Played/25
William Do Doreski/Rabbits at Large/26-27
Doug Bolling/Riding Through Time/27
Lisa Barnett/The Roman Colosseum/28
Dan Thackrey/Anthology of Modern Poetry/28
Jean Copeland/A Doll’s List of Demands/29
Liz Fortini/Where the Light [translation from the Italian of Giuseppe Ungaretti]/30
Robert Tener/I Do Not Remember the Name/30-31
Ida Fasel/Freehand/31
Natalie Lobe/Why Poets Like to Garden/32
Stuart Jay Silverman/Godiva/33
Marion Shore/Tristan and Isolde/33
Fred Ostrander/Questions/34
Barry Ballard/To Sleep/34-35
Craig B. McVay/Psyche’s Sisters Come After Her/35
Taylor Graham/Dancing in the Abbey/36
John Hart/Old Man Sauntering Through Chao Village at Apricot-Blossoming Time [after Po Chu-I]/37
Allegra Blake/The First Step Is Learning Their Biology/37
Peter Swanson/To the Cosmo Girls of the 1970s/38
A Note on Dietrich Bonhoeffer/38
Notes on Contributors/39-40

Our cover features The Webster Groves Unicorn, created especially for Blue Unicorn by Edward E. Boccia, eminent artist based in that Missouri town.