Blue Unicorn – Volume 32, Numbers 2 and 3 (Feb.-Jun. 2009)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Hieronymus Bosch/The Last Judgment, Detail of the Central Panel
Fredrick Zydek/36^th Meditation: Touring the State Institution/5-7
Ulys H. Yates/Tornado/8
Dan Campion/Tornado Sonnet/8
D. G. Zorich/Ex-Directory/9
John Milbury-Steen/Mammatocumulus/10
Ida Fasel/Immortality/10
Jene Erick Beardsley/Jokes of the Reaper/10
Vince Clemente/Too Weary to Sing/11
Scott Owens/Wake/12
John M. Bellinger/Absent/12
Robert Stern/Untitled/13
John Whitworth/Celestial Prints/14
Ann McGovern/Proof/15
Kevin Hadduck/Until My Dying Day/15
Jeanne Lohmann/Greek Dinner Table/16
David W. Landrum/Wuthering Heights/16
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/17
Gary Every/Snowmelt Spring in Sterling Pass/17
B. Z. Niditch/The Poet/18
Laurence W. Thomas/Equanimity/18-19
Ida Fasel/Hummingbirds/19
Leo Yankevich/Wake Cake/20
Constance Rowell Mastores/Darkly Lodged/20
Susan Terris/Patchwork Sister/21
Mary McCarthy/October/22
Jonathan Greenhause/Ode to a Postal Worker/22
Andy Sponring/Jackfruit [translation from the Vietnamese of Ho Xuan Huong]/23
Joanne Lowery/Ode to an Electric Fan/23
David Rosenthal/The Slowing/24
Tom Riley/Goodbye/24
Marcia Arrieta/Night Moon/25
E. G. Burrows/Strawberry Mountain/25
Edward D. Paul/Remembering the Tomato/26
Frank De Canio/Inflammation/27
J. B. Mulligan/As It Is/27
Myron Ernst/Back to Basics/28
Robert M. Shelby/Why a Free Bird So Often Sits Silent/28-29
Barbara Lydecker Crane/The Swans/29
Alan Britt/On Being Fashionable/30
David Denny/Marc Chagall Comes to Cupertino, California/30-31
Alexis Levitin/Unstilled [translation from the Portuguese of Herberto Helder] 31
Fred Ostrander/A World of Wands/32
Patricia O. Simmons/Welsh Failure/32
William L. Ramsey/Summer Palace/33
James Jackson/Form/33
Dennis Saleh/JHD/34
Peter Layton/Measured in Costs/34
Eric Obame/Undercover Brother/3
William J. Harry/Luna Importunata/36
Daniel A. Harris/Muddy Ice/36
Sally Cook/Other Rooms/37
Michael Cadnum/February: A Valediction/38
Jonathan K. Rice/Heat Lightning/39
Rick Mullin/Montclair/39
Mary Elizabeth Ladd/Bluestone/40
John Hart/We Are Not Alone/40
Daniel J. Langton/Italy/41
Juan R. Sequeira/Granada, Nicaragua/41
Terese Coe/On the Question of Reincarnation/42
J. E. Bennett/Blank Spaces/42-43
Anne Cope Wallace/Cold Island/43
Michael T. Young/Adjusting the Instruments/44
Note on Cover Design/44
Friends of Blue Unicorn/45
Contributors/46-48

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.