Blue Unicorn – Volume 38, Number 2 (Feb. 2015)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/David Erickson/Le Grand Perch de Terre Haute/4
Matthew Brennan/Le Grand Perch de Terre Haute/5
Don Thackrey/Off-Key/5
John Hart/Siegfried/6-7
Joseph S. Salemi/The Green Moss on the Coal/7
Robert Cooperman/Stand Your Ground: Local Police Response/8
                Professor Virginia Whalen, after Spending the Night in Jail/9
Constance Rowell Mastores/The Chronicles of Spring/10
Carol Frith/Staves for Aunt Celia on an April Night/11
Duane K. Caylor/Metamorphosis/11
Linda Taylor/To an Old Poet in Hartford, 1955/12
Dan Campion/Suffusion/14
                Comets/14
James B. Nicola/Book Jackets/14
Matthew J. Spireng/The Chair in the Bookstore/14-15
Robert Fagen/Rapunzel in the Rainforest/15
Ruth Daniell/I Meant to Be There Forever/16
Gary Davis/The Silken Dream/16
Thomas Feeny/Dawn [translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca]/16-17
Richard Merelman/After a Future Bombing/18
Ann Keith/Captives/19
Jim Fisher/Augur and Wind/19
J. E. Bennett/Intimacy/20
C. B. Anderson/Free Verse/21
Cynthia Weber Nankee/Of Shakespearean Sonnets/21
Laurence W. Thomas/Subsistence/22
David Sapp/The Color of Wheat/22-23
Fred Ostrander/The Message/24
Paul Malamud/Adieu to Paris [translation from the French of François Maynard]/24
John Perrault/Falling Leaves/25
Gerald Sullivan/Trashing the Luggage Room at the Essex/25
Oliver Rice/A Certain Urbanity/26
James Hickson/Wake Up/27
Marilynn Talal/Chickens and Hens/27
George Held/Hyacinths for My Love/28
Ann Keith/Sonnet: Lunar Eclipse/29
Will H. Blackwell, Jr./Release from a Reliquary/29
Jean Esteve/February, Oregon/30
Karla Cooper/Interrupted Warmth/30
Donna Pucciani/At Church/31
Roger Desy/Untitled/32
Ruth Berman/Pigeonfall/33
Carolyn Raphael/A Modest Proposal/33
Therese Arcenaux/Lazarus Awakened/34
John P. Kristofco/Noah/34
Michael Curtis/Hunting/35
Duane Niatum/No Need to Hurry/35
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled/36
Ellen Pickus/Music Lessons/37
Dennis Herrell/Antelope/37
Roger Sedarat/Last of the Qajars [translation from the Farsi of Haji Khavari]/37
Errata/38
Notes on Contributors/38-40

Our Cover Design features a Middle Eastern box, brass with enamel unicorn, 4.5” x 3.5” x 2.5”, from the collection of Ruth and Cosimo Iodice, displayed on blue velvet. Photography by Helen Schoenhals Hart.