Blue Unicorn – Volume 43, Number 2 (Spring 2020)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on homebound poetry/5
Frontispiece/Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by Parmigianino/6
Craig Kurtz/Dueling Myself/7
John Tustin/The Blackened Back of the Mirror/8
Dave Malone/Photograph of Two Boys Beside a Barn, 1979/8-9
Ruth Holzer/The Charioteer of Delphi/9
George Seli/Astoria in December/10
David Heidenstam/The Apple Fall/11
John P. Kristofco/Lent/11
Katherine Spadaro/Twilight/12
John J. Brugaletta/A New Chanteclair/12
Judith Saunders/Signs of Spring/13
Jean Esteve/Spring/13
J. E. Bennett/Snail/14
Michael Fraley/The Garden Slug/14-15
Jeff Graham/Vivisection of the Frog/15
Becky Kennedy/Passage/16
Mary Lucina/Earth and Sun/16-17
Marc Janssen/The End of Seaward/17
Alessio Zanelli/Hiker and Lines/18
Isabel Chenot/Contour Map/19
Gleb Zavlanov/You Smile/20
Duane K. Caylor/Epistemology/20
J. R. Kangas/Hearts/21
Paul Willis/In the Spirit of Petrarch/21
Melissa E. Mishcon/Androgyny/22
Dian Gillmar/Devotion/23
Ron McFarland/First Sex/23
Dan Pettee/Is Anyone Listening/24
Marcus Pavard/Ping . . . /24-25
William L. Norine/Alone/25
Rachael Gay/The Shifting of the Poles/26-27
Miles Larmour/The corncrake, alive and cupped/27
Jane Blanchard/Creusa/28
Paul Malamud/Odes, II, 13 [translation from the Latin of Horace]/28-29
Patricia Nelson/Persephone/30
David Heidenstam/“By the Black Serpent . . .”/31
Susan McLean/A Sibyl [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/31
Barbara Daniels/Recruits in the Rain/32
Sudie Nostrand/The Dying Gaul/33
Richard Weaver/Inside the barrel of a gun/33
Margaret Del Guercio/Dans le Rêve/34
Constance Rowell Mastores/Feathers/35
Richard Weaver/The Last Words of Vladimir Lenin/35
Kevin Blankinship/Free Enterprise/36
Gary Metheny/His Last Cigarette/37
Simon Perchik describes his writing process/38
Simon Perchik/*/39
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Peter Austin/Wilhelm/40
Malisa Garlieb/Your cancer is a small island/41
Robert Cooperman/Putting on Your Socks/42
Judith R. Robinson/Counting/42-43
B. E. Stock/Laid Off Scholar/43
Corey Hill/Heart Holes/44
David Sapp/They Shall Love You/45
David Stephenson/Safecracker/46
Mark Smith-Soto/Metamorphosis/47
Barbara Lydecker Crane/By the Sword/47
Gary Metheny/In the Presence of the Eternal/48
Lucille Lang Day/Yom Kippur in Ephesus and Patmos/48-49
Bree Devones Hsieh/Lady Godgifu (Lady Godiva)/50
Donald Wheelock/A Fortune Turned/51
Barbara Lydecker Crane/Before the Revolution/51
Nicholas La Para/When It Goes/52
Bonnie Thomas/Fable, Tale and Toll/53
Jerry Sexton/“Rain Falls Softly on the Town” [translation from the French of Paul Verlaine]/54
Michael Cadnum/Hot Winter/55
Blood Test/55
John Hart/Anathema/56
Fred Ostrander/Questions/56
Marc Darnell/The Passing of a Legend/57
James B. Nicola/The Exercise of Reason/57
Harold Witt/Friends/58
Donald Carlson/Unfriendly/59
Russel G. Winick/Gone/60
John Tustin/The Gravedigger Men/60
Contributors/61-64

Our cover design features a detail from “Sight,” one of the famous Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, created before 1500 in the milles-fleurs style and preserved at the Musée National du Moyen Age in Paris.