Blue Unicorn – Volume 39, Numbers 2 and 3 (Feb.-Jun. 2016)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Fred Ostrander
Fred Ostrander/To Select from a Lifetime/5-6
Editors’ Farewell/6
John Hart/The Reader [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/7
Duino Castle (Castel Duino)/8
Judith Werner/Angels at the Gates/9
Ray Nelson/Be a Man/10
Matthew J. Spireng/False Teeth/10
Sandra Bozarth/A Blackbird Sings/11
R. Steve Benson/Cardinals in Concert/11
Joseph Priddy/Melody/12-13
Will H. Blackwell, Jr./Astrology/14
Oliver Rice/Paris, Summer, 1949/14
Dan Campion/Comets/15/
                Late/15
Joseph S. Salemi/The Great Sewer/16
Daniel J. Langton/Reading of Slave Auctions in an Old Southern Newspaper/17
Edward Boccia/The Blow Torch/17
Laurence W. Thomas/Between the Waves/18-19
Ellen Pickus/For Art’s Sake/19
Dennis Herrell/Promises/20
Ingrid Keriotis/September/20-21
Jane Blanchard/Knell/21
Ruth G. Iodice/Kunstkammer/22-24
Don Thackrey/Seeking Solace/24
Robert W. King/My Daughter, Off the St. Hilaire Road, Minnesota/25
Frank Salvidio/Enigma Variations/26-27
John Brugaletta/Lovers’ Spat: The Accused/27
Richard Merelman/The Mathematician Gets the Picture/28
Carolyn Raphael/Thank You for Coming/28-20
Stephen Thomas Roberts/An Afternoon/29
Elisavietta Ritchie/Heidegger at the Breakfast Table/30
Marvin Ehrlich/Cartoon/31
Ruth Daniell/Donkeyskin/32-33
Thomas Feeny/Against the Green Sky [translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca]/33
Mark Taksa/Learning Bird/34
Michael Fraley/Mosquito/34-35
Marilynn Talal/Before the Gates/35
Philip E. Burnham, Jr./The Broken Field/36
J. E. Bennett/Tipasia/36-37
Stephen R. Roberts/When Flowers Injure Themselves for Autumn/37
David Sapp/Tom/38-30
William Fabrycki/The Hawk/39
Christine Horner/Reading Kay Ryan/40
Jean Esteve/Conquered/41
Karla E. Cooper/Regret/41
Jack Hart/The Sawyer Speaks/42
Ann Keith/Captives/43
Mike Dillon/April Dusk/43
Friends of Blue Unicorn/44
Editors in Their Youth/45
Contributors/46-48

Our Cover Design features another of six tapestry panels known as The Lady and the Unicorn, created about 1500 in the milles-fleurs style. Five of the six are traditionally thought to represent the senses; this one is Smell.