Blue Unicorn – Volume 44, Number 1 (Fall 2020)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on the ordered thought of death/5
Frontispiece/Detail from The Fable by El Greco/6
E. M. Schorb/Dark Canzone/7-8
George T. Wright/I Am Sick, I Must Die/9
David Heidenstam/Tattered Haiku/10
Laurence W. Thomas/Holidays/10
Jeff Graham/Days for Rain 1/11
C. B. Anderson/The Gold Standard/11
Jacqueline de Weever/Transformations/12
Matthew J. Spireng/Silence/12
Jeanne Shannon/The Horses of Time/13
Florence Weinberger/Birds Soar, Then Come Back to Earth/13
Peter Austin/To Save the Day/14
Ellen Pickus/Quarantine Dreams/14-15
Jeff Graham/Written 10 Years Ago, Finished During the 2020 Pandemic/15
Frank Christmas/Cock & Bull Story/16
Scott Davidson/Subtraction/16
Robert Cooperman/We Will Get By/17
Barbara Lydecker Crane/“What You Seek Is Seeking You”/18
Jane Blanchard/Never-Never Land/18
James B. Nicola/The Brilliance You Come Up With/19
            Quip Overheard at the Grave of the Greatest Poet of All Time/19
Ruth Berman/On the Extensions of the Copyright Protection Racket/19
John Hart/ I Think Sometimes It’s Time/19
Elise Hempel/Teaching Composition/20
Bruce McGuffin/A Warning to Poets/21
normal/Aug/6/1945, Hiroshima/22
Larry Michaels/Mr. Eggert, Our Butcher/22-23
Joseph S. Salemi/Government Issue/23
Joseph Hart/Cats & Dogs/24
Ray Nelson/Epitaph/24
Ron McFarland/Safe Pandemic Sex/24
Ray Nelson/Opportunity/25
David W. Landrum/Arrangement/25
Mark J. Mitchell/A God You Understand/26
Carole Baldock/Fairy Tale/26-27
Finn Brooke/Wanderland/27
Ken Poyner/Rock/28
Terry Persun/Ocean Blue/28
Thomas Dorsett/My Favorite Color/29
J. L. Moultrie/Mortal Coil/30
Marty Steyer/Starless/30
Robert S. King/Stirred Up/31
Judith Werner/The Gardener/31
Jacquelyn Shah/Cogitation with Candelabrum, Etc./32-33
Corey Elizabeth Jackson/Rather an Odd Quirk of Death/33
Bruce Morton/Eve/34
Bill Guest/False Prophets/34
John W. Steele/Cobra/35
Lorene McDonough/Cobra/35
Mary Beth Hines/Blue World/36
Dennis Herrell/The Taste of You/37
J. P. Celia/He Remembers . . . /37
Franchot Ballinger/Only/38
Patricia Nelson/Time and the Earthbound/39
Thomas Feeny/The Moon and Death [translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca]/40
Briahn Kelly-Brennan/A Thumb at Arm’s Length/41
Greg Huteson/A Matter of Preference/42
Gary Metheny/Basho’s Frog Returns/43
Susan McLean/Tanagra [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/43
Constance Rowell Mastores/Forgive the Mind Its Winter/44
Dan Campion/A Proper Noun/44
Matthew Brennan/Entrances and Exits/45
Duane K. Caylor/The Deerhunter Sleeps/45
John Marvin/Traffic Walnut Jam/46
Cliff Saunders/Another Metamorphosis/47
Jonathan Wike/To the Fisher Poets/48
John Perrault/Handkerchief of the Lord/48
Frank Salvidio/Self-Portrait/49
Susan McLean/Parlor Games/49
Daniel J. Langton/Crambo for 8 Poets/50-51
Joanne Stokkink/The Soles of Their Feet/51
Bruce Morton/Bread/52
Tom Montag/Three Poems from “The Woman in an Imaginary Painting”/52-53
Steven Ray Smith/You Will See/54-55
Max Roland Ekstrom/The Pedestal/55
Katherine Spadaro/Inestimable/56
Judith R. Robinson/My Father/56
Dave Malone/Elegy for an Actor/57
Judith Yamamoto/How We Know Where We Are/57
Kim Cushman/Untitled/58
The Iron Bridge/58
            [translations from the French of Yves Bonnefoy]
Claire J. Baker/Yosemite Valley Rubaiyats/59
Leslie Schultz/Hibernaculum/60
Friends of Blue Unicorn/60
Contributors/61-64

Our cover features the Poetree, an oak trunk in Windsor Great Park, England, sculpted in 1996 by Danish “forest artist” Jorn Ronnau.