Blue Unicorn – Volume 35, Number 2 (Feb. 2012)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Cartoon, Lament for Cops/Marvin Ehrlich
X. J. Kennedy/Lament for Cops/
                The Preference Declared/5
Constance Rowell Mastores/Kierkegaard’s Postmortem Spring/6
James B. Nicola/What Really Is/7
Thomas P. Feeny/The Surprise (translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca)/7
Matthew Buckley Smith/Ars Poetica/8
E. M. Schorb/The War of the Nine and the Six/8
Joseph S. Salemi/The Gambler Gets Religion/9
Oliver Rice/The “Reverie” of Robert Schumann/10
Robert Goldman/Luftmensch/11
Fred Ostrander/Sunset, Another/12
Leland James/Shadow Fish/12
Doug Arnold/Bumper Stickers/13
Marilynn Talal/Physics of the Mirror/14
Charles W. Pratt/Forsythia/15
Dwayne Thorpe/Adam Crying/15
Eric Sellen/One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds/16
Lee Rossi/Spraying For Pests/16
Joe Nance/A Blank Sonnet (or 14 Lines) on Keats/17
Tom Riley/Devil at the Gate/17
J. B. Mulligan/Basho’s Neighbor/18
Ruth G. Iodice/Remembering the Well House on the Old Copeland Place in McCutcheonville, Indiana, 1940/19
Mark J. Mitchell/A Sort of Song/19
Alice Capshaw/Mother/20
Becky Kennedy/Sky Like a River/20-21
J. E. Bennett/Night on the El/21
Chris Bullard/The Octopus/22
B. Z. Niditch/Song Without Words/22
Don Thackrey/New Axe/23
Richard Swanson/Thinning the Garlic/24
Susan Mclean/On a Ridiculous Astrologer/
                On an Astrologer Married to an Unchaste Wife [translations from the Latin of Sir. Thomas More)/24-25
Ruth Berman/Sophomoric/25
John Hart/Unhappy Speculation/26
John Milbury-Steen/A Definition of Hope/26
Robert Stomel/Live/27
Mark Taksa/Breakfast with a Wolf/28
Joyce LaMers/Expectations/28-29
Richard Luftig/Ancestor Trees/29
Julian A. Waller/Summer Solstice/30
B. E. Stock/Clutter/30-31
Charles Pierre/Voyage/31
Mark Vogel/Untenured/32
Philip E. Burnham, Jr./On Crissy Field/33
Helene Pilibosian/Rock Calligraphy Talks to Me/34
David Sapp/Yellow/35
Chris Horner/Mendocino Revisited/36
About The Jester of Columbia/36
Marvin Ehrlich/Cartoon, The Jester of Columbia/37
Contributors/38-40

Our Cover Design features “Unicorn Crossing,” ink on paper, created February 2012 by Marvin Ehrlich.