Blue Unicorn – Volume 32, Number 1 (Oct. 2008)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Frank Muhly/Two Elder Sage Grouse Statesmen
W. Dale Nelson/Reflections on an Expedition/Things Passing/5-6
Jane Stuart/Wind’s Kaleidoscope/6
Jeffrey Alfier/Letter From Yuma to My Father Back East/7
Gloria Chun/Untitled/8
Charles W. Pratt/Restless, Oh Restless/8
Fred Ostrander/Minor Paintings/9
Rachel Adams/Sounds From a Brick House/10-11
David W. Landrum/At Saint Nicholas Church/11
Laurence W. Thomas/Impending Storm/12
Robert Necker/Making a Hell of Heaven/12
Keith McClure/Planting Roses/13
Carol Hamilton/The Butcher’s Tools/14
J. E. Bennett/Dusk, Diesel Horn and Apple/14
Dina Coe/Pastoral in Green and Red/15
Jack Lindeman/From a Sort of a Sermon/16
B. E. Stock/After the Fall/16
James S. Wilk/The Polyglot/17
Christine Perrin/A Problem of Translation/17
John Hart/Rueful Couplet at Evening/18
Lorraine A. Vail/Rituals/18
C. L. Gunther/Escort/19
Ann B. Knox/Forcing a Project to Completion Can Ruin What Is Almost Ripe/19
Priscilla Atkins/Urinal/20
C. B. Anderson/Pay Attention/20
The Harold Witt Awards/21
Lucille Lang Day/My Grandmother’s Painting/22
Vaughn Fritts/Granny at Her Sewing Machine/23
Barry Ballard/The Paraplegic’s Father and the Other Son/23
J. L. Kubicek/The Marvelous Word/24
Evalyn Torrant/Double Exposures/24
Jason Lester/Waiting for Grandma to Be Born/25
Ida Fasel/A Pippa Morning/26
Meredith Rowan/Nothing Is Like Breathing/27
Ken Holland/Memoriam/27
Paul Malamud/Inheritor/27
Jane Blanchard/Naked Truth/29
Dana Stamps, II/Gone Girls/29
Judith R. Robinson/Gone, Good-bye, Encore/30-31
Patricia Brodie/Love Is Homesickness/31
Thomas Feeny/Rima VII [translation from the Spanish of Gustavo Bécquer]/32
Maryann Corbett/Differing Visions/32
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/33
Doug Ramspeck/Bottomlands Mother/33
Robert Parham/The Origins of Love/34-35
Dwayne Thorpe/Resartus/36
Constance Rowell Mastores/You, William Dunbar/36-37
David Linebarger/Mandorla/37
Peggy Aylsworth/Words Among the Silences/38
Contributors

Our Cover Design features a detail from the mythological bestiary in the mosaic floor of Otranto Cathedral, Italy, c. 1165. This image of a monk gentling a unicorn may be a self portrait of Friar Pantaleone, the artisan of the floor.