Blue Unicorn – Volume 31, Number 3 (Jun. 2008)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Michelangelo/The Creation of Adam
John Hart/The Silence/5
Dwayne Thorpe/Waking Holding Hands/6
Don Kimball/Song for Folding Sheets/6
Merrill Philip Malkerson/Cold Flames/7
Don Schofield/Scandal [translation from The  Greek  of Nikos Fokas]/7
J. T. Ledbetter/The Washing of Root and Bone Greenville, Illinois/8
Derek Updegraff/Weathering/9
Ruth Holzer/The Falling Father/10
David Chorlton/Bruegel/10
Charles W. Pratt/Villanelle on a Line from an Egyptian Papyrus Fragment/11
James Doyle/The Fortress/12-13
Carol Devieau/Invocation/13
J. B. Mulligan/The Price of Sin/14
Fred Ostrander/Leaves and Birds/14
Ida Fasel/High Rise  September 11, 2001/15
William F. Bell/The Circle/16
Scot Slaby/ National Poetry Month in the Public Library’s Men’s Restroom/17
David J. Rothman/On First Looking Into  a Trendy Literary Periodical/17
Marie C. Jones and Rachel Yeatts/The Song of Solitude [translation from the French of René Guy Cadou]/18
R. S. Stewart/The Last Happy Image/19
James DenBoer/Four Directions/19
Jody Azzouni/The Alchemist’s Cup/20-21
Scott Owens/We Never Know the Places We Are/22
B. E. Stock/After the Fall/22
Chris Bullard/Boxwood/23
Lucie Adams/Grade One/24
Evalyn Torrant/Resolve/24-25
Jennifer Renee Roediger/Rules of Engagement/25
Lynne Potts/Forgot, with Trappings/26
Elisavietta Ritchie/Bread and Honey/26-27
Laurence W. Thomas/It’s Raining/27
Tom Riley/Love Poem of a Hatemonger/28
Richard Luftig/Report from Gratis (OH)/28
Janet McCann/The Nuns Who Left/29
Ruth G. Iodice/French Song Bird in a Gilded Cage/30
Dennis Saleh/Cobalt/31
Bonnie Thomas/Pianissimo /31
Vince Clemente/Thoreau Packs His Journals/32-33
Kate McCauley/In Tongues/33
Janna Kate Layton/Cat/34
Lisa Zimmerman/Dog from the Original Fire/34
William Fabrycki/ Swimming on the Bottom/35
David Sapp/The Drop Leaf Table/36
Allen Strous/For Miss Chilcote/37
Friends of Blue Unicom/38
Notes on Contributors/38-40

Our Cover Design features a detail from the mosaics in the cupola of the Palatine Chapel, Palazzo dei Romanni, Palermo, Sicily. Mosaics covering the wooden alveolar ceiling were made by Arab craftsmen.