Blue Unicorn – Volume 41, Number 2 (Feb. 2018)

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CONTENTS

Patricia Nelson/The Lovers/5
Robert Cooperman/Years Later, Back at Troy, Odysseus Performs a Ritual of Atonement to the Boy He Killed the Night of the Trojan Horse/6-7
Brent Southgate/Epigram V.84 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/8
Robert Youngs Pelgrift, Jr./Ash Wednesday/8-9
Leslie Schultz/Clue/10
Frank Salvidio/At Lunch/10
E. M. Darnell/They Say His Eyes Were Gray/11
Susan McLean/Love All/11
Gregory E. Lucas/While Looking at an Unknown Artist’s Painting/12
Dennis Trudell/After Midnight/13
Ruth Holzer/The Poet at Seventy/14
James B. Nicola/Acts of Creation/14
William A. Holt/A Distant Aubade: The Poems of Richard Wilbur Considered & Praised/15
Jane Stuart/Flood/16
Gary Metheny/Chasing Herring/16
John Steele/Big Bluestem/17
Judy Katz Levine/The Great Violin [translation from the French of Henri Michaux]/18
Mark J. Mitchell/French Interlude/19
R. S. Stewart/Out a Window/20
Jean Esteve/When the Floor Needs Washing/21
Jane Blanchard/Nomenclature/22
Alan J. Blaustein/Men’s Magazines/23
Richard Swanson/Kafkaesque/23
Ken Tokuno/Blindness/24-25
Donald Mace Williams/Woman Going Blind [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/25
Karma Tenzing Wangchuk/In and Out/26
Sally Cook/The Collectors/26
George Held/Epigram X.97 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/27
Jay Griswold/In the Tropics/27
Sudie Nostrand/Untitled/28
Henry Harlan/Why, Dear Children . . . ?/28
Joseph S. Salemi/For Patricia Smith/29
Laurence W. Thomas/Replacement/30
Stephen R. Roberts/A Slightly Irrational Walk/30
Donna Pucciani/Not Wanting/31
Dennis Herrell/Lost/32
J. E. Bennett/An Evening/32
John P. Kristofco/The Apple, William Tell, and Emily Dickinson/33
Holly Day/Going First/34
Judith R. Robinson/Feed Lots/34
Aaron Kent/A Work in Progress from Coffee and Hate/35
Michael Burch/Styx/36
Michael Jones/Losing It: A Processional/36
R. Nikolas Macioci/Anton Webern (1883-1945)/36
Leo Yankevich/Bakelite/37
Our 2017 Pushcart Nominees/38
Contributors/38-40

Our Cover Design features a painting of a female Chinese unicorn, the Quilin. According to the ancient Book of Rites, “its call is like a monastery bell. When the monarch is virtuous, this beast appears.”