Blue Unicorn – Volume 36, Number 2 (Feb. 2013)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Marvin Ehrlich/In the Wake of the Honey Wagon
Duane K. Caylor/Honey Wagon/5-6
Mark Taksa/Rug Shop/6
Daniel J. Langton/Noticing Three Blackbirds/7
Tom Riley/Poetry by Nuns/7
David Sapp/The Ice Storm/8
Thomas P. Feeny/Lord, You Have Now Taken from Me [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/9
Dan Campion/The Fountain of Beira/9
Gerald Sullivan/Above the Timberline/10-11
Therese Arcenaux/Before the Words/11
Jack Lindeman/Quandary/12
Francis Raven/An Overblown Afternoon/12
Craig McVay/The Beautiful Prisoner Dreams of Andromeda/13
Judith Saunders/Io’s Story/14-15
Don Thackrey/The Signs/15
Vera Schwarcz/The Culture of Our Divine Land/16
J. B. Sisson/Shimmering Verge/17
Judith Ann Levison/Scar/17
James B. Nicola/Doppelgänger/18
George Held/Down to Earth/18
Richard Luftig/Gnaw Bone, Indiana/19
B. E. Stock/Airport Security/20
Patricia Nelson/Returning Home at Dusk/21
Fred Ostrander/The Bridge/21
Evalyn Torrant/Wild Turkeys/22-23
Paul Willis/A Palpable Tale/23
John Hart/We Sailed Long in the Ships [translation from the German of Richard Hülsenbeck]/25
Oliver Rice/From the Passages of Beauregard/25
Dwayne Thorpe/Whitman’s Sonnet/26
Judith Katz Levine/Walls 6.19.10/27
William T. Burke, S.J./Light Rush into Caves/28
Will Wells/Insomnia Pantoum/29
Barbara Lydecker Crane/The Real Thing/30
John Knatterud/Revelation/31
Dennis Herrell/Dialogue/31
Ruth G. Iodice/March 19, 1970, Mission San Juan de Capistrano/32
Matthew J. Spireng/Wild Onions/32
Russell Rowland/Boreal Chickadees/33
Thomas P. Feeny/Traveler [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado/35
Lynn P. Elwell/Adoration/35
Michael Cadnum/The Louse/36
Susan H. Maurer/Riddle Poem/37
John Perrault/Fathers and Sons/37
Li C. Tien/Daughter Passes a University Entrance Examination [translation from the Chinese of Yu Y. Tien by the author’s son]/38
Contributors

Our Cover Design features a “blue unicorn” from an old military unit insignia sent us by longtime BU friend Joseph S. Salemi, measuring about 1 ¼ by 1 inch, designed with lapis enameling over brass, it was worn on an officer’s lapel. Photography by Jeffrey Kay Iodice.