Blue Unicorn – Volume 40, Number 3 (Jun. 2017)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Hellenistic Head of Odysseus/4
Robert Cooperman/Six Months after His Return to Ithaca, Odysseus Consults a Priest/5
                The Priest Tries to Remove the Curse Placed on Odysseus by a Dying Trojan Boy/6
Allen Strous/Drawing/7
Gary Metheny/Again Finding the World/7
Marilynn Talal/Old Lovers/8
John Steele/My Grandpa Lost/8
Dan Campion/Sharpshin/9
                Complications/9
John Hart/Tristan’s First Monologue [translation from the German of Richard Wagner]/10-11
Michael Cavanagh/These Delicate Words/11
Yvonne Cannon/No Replacement/12
Barbara Swift Brauer/Missing Them/13
John J. Brugaletta/Hope/13
Eugene S. Fairbanks/The Public Market/14
David Vancil/At Panda Garden/14
Vincent O’Neill/Spoke/15
Laurence W. Thomas/Inventory/15
Jane Blanchard/Voice Mail/16
Michael Cadnum/Lemonade/16
Susan Mclean/Nuclear Family/17
Frank Salvidio/Old Acquaintance/17
Dennis Saleh/Santa Ana/18
Sally Cook/The Predicament of the Leaf/19
Terence Culleton/Unleaving/19
Jack in the Pulpit/20
Ruth G. Iodice/Wildflower Gardens/21
William Fabrycki/The Necessity of Sorrow/22-23
Gary Davis/Vous Estes le Bouquet/23
Robert Youngs Pelgrift, Jr./From Now to Then/24
Mike Dillon/It Was the Hour/24
Jane Stuart/Morning Again/25
Ellen Pickus/June 6, 2016/26
Claire J. Baker/Dear Lady/27
Linda Taylor/In Utero/28
Jean Esteve/Contiguity/29
James B. Nicola/Twins/29
Audrey C. Small/Aftermath/30
James Hickson/Sunset Soup/30
Evalyn Torrant/Wild Geese/31
C. B. Anderson/Water Music/31
Duane K. Caylor/Reading the Comet, 1652/32
Stuart Dodds/The Great Schism Turns on a Fine Point/33
William Ruleman/To the Self-Appointed Cross-Examiners (i.e., Virtually Everyone These Days)/33
Henry Harlan/Why, Israelites . . . ?/34
Dwayne Thorpe/Angels/34
B. E. Stock/Scapegoat/35
Paul Malamud/Odes III, 29 [translation from the Latin of Horace]/36-38
Contributors/38-40

Our Cover Design features a lacework edging in the style known as lacis, a square mesh with darned patterns, in this case showing the unicorn. Italy, 16th century, from the collection of Jules and Kaethe Kliot.