Blue Unicorn – Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2019)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s Remarks on being on the Web/5
Frontispiece/The Blue Angels in flight/6
Jon Miller/Angels above the City/7
Jerry Sexton/To My Father on the Occasion of His Face Being in the News/8-9
James B. Nicola/Timmy/9
David Sapp/Naked/10
K. Lauren de Boer/Wabi-Sabi Love/11
Laurence W. Thomas/Carnival/12
Lark Owl and Tern/Republic/12-13
Marilynn Talal/A to Z of Chasing Squirrels/14
Ruth Berman/Hydrotherapy for Tantrums/15
Michael Cadnum/Hot Weather/16
Katherine Spadaro/Turns/16
Allen Strous/Long Moment/17
Michael Fraley/Fly/18
Paul Malamud/Fête Champêtre/18-19
Jeff Hardin/Source/20
Ellen Pickus/January Baby/20
Peter Austin/A Child/21
Ron McFarland/Ecumenical/22
John W. Steele/The Breath/22
James B. Nicola/Lightfall/23
Jean Esteve/To the New Convert/23
Gary Metheny/Toward Sleep/24
Thomas Feeny/Until Daybreak [translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca]/24
You Say Nothing Is Created?/
                Bad Dreams [translations from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/25
Mark J. Mitchell/Kaliyuga/26
Mary Beth Hines/Martha’s Letter to Jesus/27
Dennis Herrell/Better than Magic/28
Leslie Schultz/For Cesar Chavez, Belatedly/28
Judith R. Robinson/A Visitor/29
Bray McDonald/Heartstone/30
Jeff Hardin/Having Met Mostly Resistance/30
Joanne Stokkink/Regeneration/31
Michael Jones/Deliver/32
Will Cordeiro/The Deceitful Brevity of Life [translation from the Spanish of Luis De Góngora]/32
Ann Marie Wranovix/Father’s Lullaby/33
Daniel J. Langton/A Third Grade Class in Harlem/34
A Postulate/34
Cogitation/35
Trying Is Trying/35
Jeff Graham/The Old Man/36
John Perrault/Cephalus/37
Dan Campion/Trophies/38
Unviable//38
Patricia Nelson/Lancelot/39
Ann Marie Wranovix/Warning for a Prospective English Major/40
David Sahner/Poeisis/41
Bill Guest/Writing/41
Robert Fern/Shards/42
Cathy Porter/Anniversary/42
Dian Gillmar/Evergreen Pear/43
Patty Dickson Pieczka/The Fog of Divorce/43
John Byrne/We Look Away; We Hesitate/44
Henry Harlan/Once in a Dream/44
Danny P. Barbare/The Broom/45
Bill Guest/Mrs. Tweed/45
Christian Woodard/Sauger, for Ben/46
D. R. James/A Little Instability Without Birds/46-47
James Miller/The Lost Hour/48
Laurinda Lind/The Cold Within the Cold/48
Matthew J. Spireng/The Desert, Day and Night/49
Marcus Pavard/What Happened in the Park/50
D. S. Maolalai/Smog and Warnings/50-51
Dennis Herrell/Better Not to Know/51
Becky Kennedy/There Were So Many Leaves/52
Mark Taksa/1946/52-53
Frank Salvidio/Memorabilia/53
Claire J. Baker/After Rilke’s Line/54
Nicholas La Para/Still They Go/54-55
C. B. Anderson/Lowlife/55
                Compline/56
Susie Gharib/Charles Baudelaire/56-57
Richard Luftig/Local Branch/57
James B. Nicola/Holidays/58
Constance Rowell Mastores/Year’s End/58
Michael Cadnum/Birthday Eve/59
Friends of Blue Unicorn/59
Goodbye to Robert Greenwood/60
Robert Greenwood/Rodger/60
So Be It/60
Contributors/61-64

Our Cover Design features a Persian depiction of Iskandar (Alexander the Great) at the head of his troops astride a unicorn. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.