Blue Unicorn – Volume 42, Number 1 (Oct. 2018)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s Remarks
Frontispiece
Jim Kerbaugh/Subdue and Rule/7
Tom Laichas/Possession/8
The Human Ways/8
Brian K. Turner/Alleys and Parking Lots /9
William Fabrycki/Maggie (Night)/10
John Hart/Stray Cat/11
Paul Malamud/The Miller, His Son, and Their Donkey [translation from the French of Lafontaine]
Ron McFarland/The Gardener/14
Marc Darnell/Bzz/14
Matthew J. Spireng/Old Apples/15
Holly Eva/I Distinguished the Insect from the Herb/15
Duane Caylor/The Fall of Rome/16
Brent Southgate/VII.31 [translation from the Latin of Martial]/16
George Held/X8/
XII.19/
XII.69/
XII. 73/17
[translations from the Latin of Martial]
Craig Kurtz/Mediocre Man/18-19
Jane Blanchard/Under Oath/19
                Caveats/19
James B. Nicola/The Words/20
Dan Campion/Visitation/20
Gary Metheny/Reunion with the Deceased I Still Hold Dear/21
B. Anderson/Rubaiyat for Departed Friends/21
Ken Tokuno/If I Had Died a Poet/22-23
James B. Nicola/Notebooks/23
Jerry Sexton/The Life Coach Says/24
Neal Zirn/Shot in the Back/24
Jean Esteve/Mumblepeg/25
John Perrault/Smoke/26
Susan Martin/Solitude/26
Marjorie Power/The Ferry/27
Ken Poyner/Nineteenth Century Salvage/28-29
Robert Cooperman/Pirate Captain James Raven Closes on the Merchantman, The Peacock/29
Paul Fraleigh/Statue of the Virgin Mary, Old Port, Montreal/30
Henry Harlan/Shepherd Boy/30
Jane Stuart/Moon over Addis Ababa/31
Robert M. Fagen/Dragonfly over Water/32
John W. Steele/Bullseye/33
Simon Perchik/*/34
Roberta Marggraff/Stone Angel/34-35
Ellen Pickus/Osteoporosis/36
Cathy Porter/Living With/36
Nicholas La Para/A Worn Blade/37
Gary Metheny/Condolences/38
Ruth Holzer/Around the Clock/38
Richard Dinges, Jr./Vacant Stare/39
James Miller/Remembering My Mother/39
Hayley Mitchell Haugen/Aubade: Bicontinental/40
Greg Moglia/The Umbrella Takes a Walk/40
John Zedolik/The Reason/41
Carol Hamilton/Half-Chief/42
Russell Rowland/Indian Pipe/42-43
Marjorie Power/End of the Line/43
Barbara Leydecker Crane/Po’ Me/44
Jim Kerbaugh/Wasteland/44
Donald Beagle/Time, Considered as Driving in Ohio/45
Constance Rowell Mastores/Root-Fire/46
Frank Salvidio/Inferno, Canto XXXIII/46
Jean Wong/Notes to Dante/47
Patricia Nelson/Fire/48
Therese Arcenaux/The Exile/49
David Anthony Sam/Season of Disgrace (after Rimbaud “Ô Saisons, Ô Châteaux”)/50
Judith Yamamoto/After Midnight/50
Judy Katz-Levine/Parable of Those Who Are Lucky with Roses/51
Claire J. Baker/What Makes and Separates the Clouds/52
B. E. Stock/Taking Pause/52-53
Gregory E. Lucas/While Looking at an Unknown Artist’s Painting/54
Scott Blackwell/Spaces/55
Mrs. Catherine Black Cohen/Willets, Willets, Willets/56-57
Bonnie Thomas/Untitled Autumn/57
Jeff Graham/Haiku/58
Matthew Brennan/Two Snowfalls, Twenty Years Apart/58
Diana Pucciani/Ask the Dawn/59
Cara Valle/Turrón/60
Friends of Blue Unicorn/61
Contributors/61-64

Our Cover Design features a detail from “The Fate of Animals” by Franz Marc, a large oil painted in 1913 and hanging in the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland.