Blue Unicorn – Volume 41, Number 3 (Jun. 2018)

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01CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Bust of Marcus Aurelius/4
Waltrina Furlong/Marcus Aurelius/5
Robert Cooperman/Hemnos, the Boy Odysseus Killed the Night of the Trojan Horse, Finally in the Blessed Isles/6
Therese Arceneaux/Ulysses Aged/7
Frank Salvidio/Of Love and Age/7
Laurence W. Thomas/Aubade/8
B. E. Stock/Icarus/9
David Sapp/For Me/10
Mary McCarthy/Yosemite, May 15/11
John J. Brugaletta/Blossoms in Their Time/11
Thomas Feeny/There Is a Celebration in the Green Meadow [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/12
James Tipton/Haiku for the Vernal Equinox/13
Judy Katz-Levine/Head of a Faun [translation from the French of Arthur Rimbaud]/13
Barbara Lydecker Crane/The Nest/14
Taking Dictation from a Mockingbird/15
Paul Willis/Vine Maple (1)/16
Death Camas/16
Matthew Brennan/A Prelude/17
Fred Ostrander/Snake Story/17
Jane Blanchard/Modus Operandi/18
John P. Kristofco/To My Student Who Writes Sonnets Now/18
Brent Southgate/Epigram IV.21 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/19
Michael Biehl/Music History/19
James B. Nicola/Lunacy/20-21
Holly Day/Out of Reach/21
Audrey C. Small/Aftermath/ 22
Robert Fagen/Mermaid/22
Donald Mace Williams/Sonnets to Orpheus II, 4 [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/23
Ron McFarland/To a Fly/24
Diane Webster/The Way Out/24-25
Michael Fraley/The Moth/25
Dan Pettee/Action and Reaction/26
Dennis Trudell/Companion/27
Marc Darnell/Proof/28
Mike Faran/Texas Women/28
Judith Chalmer/Couple in a Car up Lincoln Gap/29
Jerry Sexton/Acquisition of Caution/30
Mark J. Mitchell/Grand Mistress/30
George Held/Epigram XII.46 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/31
Frank De Canio/Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing/31
Brendan McEntee/Confetti/32
Stephen Malin/A Summer Day in the Hundred Years’ War/32
Judith R. Robinson/Birdland/33
Simon Perchik/*/34
Michael Jones/Invidious/35
Mark Taksa/Occupying Eyes/35
Ken Poyner/Experimental Method/36
Matthew J. Spireng/Looking at the Height/Age Chart at 65/37
William Ruleman/In the Schlossberg Biergarten/37
Contributors

Our Cover Design features an illustration from a 16th century German bestiary and “pattern book,” preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.