Blue Unicorn – Volume 34, Number 1 (Oct. 2010)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Portrait of an Artist by Edward Boccia
Edward Boccia/Light from Inside/The Dream/5-6
Matthew Brennan/At Sonka’s Irish Pub/6
Philip Parisi/Mountain Curves [translation from the Italian of Alfonso Gatto]/7
Gregory Perry/Hatteras Time/7
J. Patrick Lewis/Okefenokee Swamp Song/8
Alice Park/Moonlight [translation from the French of Paul Verlaine]/9
Liza McAlister Williams/Neglected Garden/9
Thomas P. Feeny/Moon Ballad [translation from the Spanish of Federico Garcia Lorca]/10-11
Stanley Morris Noah/Counting Telephone Poles/11
Paul Willis/Solstice/12
Martha Kaplan/An Easy Job/12
James Michael Robbins/Facing It Alone/13
Dwayne Thorpe/Not Yet October/13
Allen Tice/To the Rival Poet, Sonnet 155/14
Fred Ostrander/Out of the Alleys/14
Enriqueta Carrington/George Sand/15
Robert E. Wood/Usherette/15
Claire Wahmanholm/Goya/16-17
Joan Colby/Pumps/17
Ruth Berman/Orange Cat/18
Dana Tan/Madrigal/18
Frank De Canio/Inflammation/19
Daniel J. Langton/October Eighth/19
Vince Clemente/A Trenta Sei, After John Ciardi/20
The Fifth Annual Harold Witt Memorial Awards/21
Anne Drury/Doorways/22-23
Judith R. Robinson/Translucence/23
B. R. Culbertson/Far Enough up the Road/24-25
James Donohoe/Love’s Last Embrace (Villanelle)/25
John Hart/Anemone/26
James Doyle/Tavern at the Sign of the Hoof and Wheel/26
James B. Nicola/Novitiate/27
J. R. Solonche/Isaac/27
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/28
Dan Campion/The Hunting in Hunting/28
Joseph Hart/Intuition/29
Claire J. Baker/At Fort Marigot/29
Paul Sohar/Summer Disorder/30
Fredrick Zydek/Things in Which It Is Difficult to Believe/30-31
John Grey/Inventor Man/31
Robert Layzer/Homage to Mallarmé/32
Laurence W. Thomas/Tent City/32-33
Sally Cook/Seasons/33
Susan Maclean/Archaic Torso of Apollo [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/34
Mary Lucina/Halfway Up/34-35
Richard Braco/Ella’s Strength/35
Marita Garin/Hand Sculpture/36
Friends of Blue Unicorn/37
Notes on Contributors/38-40

Our cover features the Turnabout Unicorn, a 5 ½” by 7 ½” petit point tapestry stitched by an unknown needlepoint artist. Donated to the Turnabout Shop (see note p. 38), the piece was passed on to BU by the courtesy of Jacqueline Sheehy. Photography by Cosimo Iodice.