Blue Unicorn – Volume 41, Number 1 (Oct. 2017)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Ruth G. Iodice
Goodbye to Ruth/5
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/6
          ”First Steps”/6
          Visitation/7
          With Wavery Wings/7
Judy Katz Levine/Disappearing Like Cicadas in Snow/8
Franchot Ballinger/That Moment/9
James Tipton/Gardening in the Afterlife/9
Robert Cooperman/The Spell Continues: He Who Was Once Odysseus/10
Dan Campion/Which Ithaka?/11
Desired Strength/11
Paul Malamud/Cheese/12
Richard Luftig/Upon Reflection/13
Estelle Solomon/Many the Children I Pray/14-15
Judith Yamamoto/On an Afternoon of Swans/15
Franchot Ballinger/Next Morning/16
Marc Darnell/Bedside Manner/16
Dwayne Thorpe/Anniversary/17
Charles Southerland/The Presbyterian: Spoon River Spenserian Sonnet/17
Jean Esteve/Liar/18
Stuart Dodds/Shame and Guilt/18
John Michael Mouskos/Love Remembered/19
William Ruleman/The Tightrope Walkers [translation from the German of Georg Heym]/20
Thomas Feeny/The Bright Air of Seville [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/21
Gary Metheny/Grandmother/22
Andrew Hale/Act of Omission/22
Marilynn Talal/An Overlooked Benefit of Cognitive Impairment/23
Duane K. Caylor/The Death of James the Just/24-25
Dennis Saleh/Santa Ana/26-27
Cathy Porter/When Dylan Went Electric/27
Mark Vogel/Drying Heat/28
Mark J. Mitchell/In the Dream You Are Gore Vidal and You are/29
John Hart/Sirens/29
Jane Blanchard/Submittably/30
Ray Nelson/Connoisseur/30
Brent Southgate/Epigram II.71 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/30
Dian Gillmar/Perspective/31
Matthew Brennan/Intimations to a Descendant/31
Laurence W. Thomas/The Story of Wars/32
Mike Faran/The Hands of Offshore Drillers/33
Susan Mclean/Necessaries/34
Liza Morris/Motherly Advice/34
John W. Steele/Au Revoir/35
Matthew J. Spireng/Sunset, Route 28/36
Leo Yankevich/To Marcus Aurelius/37
Michael Fraley/More Than Enough/38
C. B. Anderson/Evolutions/38-39
Li C. Tien/When I Hear Geese/39
Sally Cook/Some Shadows/40
George Held/Dear Traveler/40
John J. Brugaletta/Ballade on Holiday Gatherings/41
James B. Nicola/Teresa’s Pie/42-43
Donna Pucciani/Just Enough Time/44
Friends of Blue Unicorn/45
Contributors/46-48

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