Blue Unicorn – Volume 42, Number 2 (Spring 2019)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s Remarks on What We Like/5
Frontispiece/Humphreys Basin, photo by David de Leeuw/6
David de Leeuw/Páramo/7
William Blake/The Ascent of the Mountain of Purgatory/8
Patricia Nelson/The Mountain Roars/9
Duane K. Caylor/Preparing the Bicycles/10-11
Don Russ/Carpool Flashback/12
The Distance/12
Pamela L. Summers/On the Fresh Morning of Forgetfulness/13
Katherine Spadaro/Procession/14
Michael Fraley/The Gentle Monarch of the Sea/14
C. B. Anderson/Low Tide at Gallanach/15
Richard Dinges, Jr./Shiver/16
Laurence W. Thomas/Cabin Fever/16
Ruth Berman/Storm Migration/17
Glenn Ingersoll/Customer Service/17
Peter M. Dunne/Out of Season/18
Laurence W. Thomas/The Changing/18
Terry Persun/A Philosophy of Sunlight/19
Karen Poppy/Winter’s Song in Spring/19
Robert M. Fagen/Rapunzel in Class/20
Peter Hobson/La Danse Symbolique/20
     The Frame/21
Margaret Del Guercio/Orb Weaver/22
Terry Persun/Weeds/23
John P. Kristofco/Dandelions/23
Donald Wheelock/Two Takes on Futility/24
Michael Cadnum/The Novice/25
Michael Biehl/Apocalypse/26
Peter M. Dunne/Conflagration/26-27
Constance Rowell Mastores/Reflections/28
Marc Darnell/Small-Minded/29
Katherine Spadaro/Green Leaf, Street Lamp, Night Sky/29
Allen Strous/Accomplishments/30
Donald Wheelock/Six Lines Without Thought/31
Estelle Solomon/Words/31
J. E. Bennett/The Root Gatherer/32
Charles Pierre/Home Office/33
Lewis/Voracious Need/33
Deborah Schmidt/I Have Lost My Turtledove [translation from the French of Jean Passerat]/34
Diane Webster/Memory Floats/35
Dan Campion/Reunion/35
Roberta Marggraff/The Closed Fan/36
Joseph S. Salemi/Kissing Cousin/37
Robin Dellabough/Sonnet Sapiens/37
James B. Nicola/Herbal Tea/38
Ken Poyner/Mythology/39
Simon Perchik/*/40
Jacqueline de Weever/Rambler/40-41
Brendan McEntee/Carved/41
Michael Cadnum/Endurance/42
Cathy Porter/Like a God/42
Ruth Holzer/In the Dark/43
Michael Jones/Use and Disuse in News of Killing/44
Hugh Cook/Metallic Lies/44
Susan Mclean/Ashes, Ashes/45
B. E. Stock/Elections/45
David de Leeuw/Salt/46
Thomas R. Keith/For Paul Desmond/46
Robert James Berry/The Piano/47
Mary Lucina/Backing Up/47
Jane Blanchard/Marsh View/48
Rachel A. Lott/Loneliness [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke)/48
Karen Poppy/Coyotes/49
John J. Brugaletta/Philia (Friendship)/49
Gary Metheny/Bad News/50
Carol Rucks/Night Travelers/50
Judith Werner/Eclipse/51
Bill Marsh/The Beasts/51
Sudie Nostrand/Penelope/52
Marc Jampole/While Helen Hid in Egypt/52-53
David Stephenson/Rainmaker/54
Ken Poyner/Freeing the Hurricane/55
Thomas Feeny/Landscape (translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca)/56
Lance Lee/The Oranges of Guimaraes/56-57
Hayley Mitchell Haugen/Mother    Daughter    Sister    Sons/58-59
Jo-Anne Cappeluti/My Favorite Aunt/59
Susan Mclean/Lunatics in the Garden (translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke)/60
Contributors

Our Cover Design features a photograph of Unicorn Peak in Yosemite National Park, taken by Mark Furtado of the Cragmont Climbing Club.