Blue Unicorn – Volume 38, Number 1 (Oct. 2014)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Marvin Ehrlich/All the Lads and Their Lasses are Ecstatic and Ready to Roll
C. B. Anderson/September/5-6
James B. Nicola/Sleeping Habits/6
Robert Cooperman/Advice to Odysseus/7
Joseph S. Salemi/The Poet Duly Takes Note of His Critics/8-9
Kim Cushman /Untitled [translation from the French of Benoît Conort]/9
Philip Parisi/Day Care/10
Ken Poyner/Christ’s Blacksmith/11
Lucille Lang Day/Elizabeth Contemplates Her Will/12-13
Paul Malamud /Civil Strife [translation from the French of Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye]/13
Oliver Rice/Visiting With Lamar/14-15
John Kristofco/Moonlight Again/15
Saul Zachary/Anniversary/16
John Hart/Respiration/17
Tom Riley/Magister Definitus/17
Ruth G. Iodice/A Canticle for Dying/18-19
Sally Cook/Escaping the Damp/20
Dennis Herrell/Unexpected Visit/20
David Stephenson/Cave Fish/21
Carolyn Raphael/Watching/22
Jane Blanchard/Drift/22
E. M. Schorb/Education/23
Jack Lindeman/Anxiety/24
Joan Esteve/Sand Lake, Oregon/24
Michael Curtis /Cricket Song/25
Constance Rowell Mastores/Correspondences/25
Duane K. Caylor/Imagining the Upcoming Class Reunion That I Cannot Attend/26-27
James Cotton/Pine/27
Steve Wilson/St. Canice’s Cathedral/28
Fred Ostrander/Oread/29
Michael Cadnum/Candle/29
Ray Nelson/Untitled/30
Carol Frith/Elemental Rain/30
Dan Campion/Lifeline/31
George Held/When The Lyric . . ./31
Marjorie Power/Widely Unknown/32
Jacqueline DeWeever/Pear in Bloom/33
Richard Swanson/Cranky/33
Cynthia Weber Nankee/Listen . . . Winter/34
Stephen R. Roberts/Street Person/34
Leo Dangel/The Welfare Cat in Winter/35
Judith Saunders/Hog Wild/35
Joan Colby/Uncultivated/36
Marilynn Talal/His Hands/37
Richard Marx Weinraub/In Memory of Barbara Bergquist/37
Gerald Sullivan/A Pair of Caged Lions/38
Contributors/38-40

About our Cover Design. Noah’s family and the animals line up to board the ark. A fourteenth century miniature in Queen Mary’s Psalter. The unicorns, apparently, did not make it on board.