Blue Unicorn – Volume 44, Number 2 (Spring 2021)

Description

CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on bumblebees/5
Frontispiece/The Death of Hercules by Francisco de Zurburán/6
Marc Janssen/Fire Dies/7
Simon Perchik/*/8
James B. Nicola/Enough/8-9
Harry Moore/Absence/9
J. Sorrentino/The Parting/10
Jeff Graham/The Bantam Hours 62/10
Carla Sarett/This Is Not Troy/11
Bob Carlton/“The Wary Stare . . . ”/12
Jean Esteve/Advanced Education/12
Laura King/A Mother Explains/13
Tess Hunt/Enigmama/13
James Miller/To a Meadow on the Delaware River/14
Jonathan Kinsman/April Day/14
Joseph Zaccardi/The Vapor of This Day/14-15
Deborah Schmidt/In a Single Flower/16
Against Whom, Rose/16
From Your Overflowing Dream/17
The Rose Full-Blown/17
Dirait-On/17
[translations from the French of Rainer Maria Rilke]
Susan McLean/Buddha [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/18
Jerry Sexton/Leaves [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/18
Ian Haight and T’ae-Yong Hŏ/Remnants: VII/19
The Resort of Fine Wines/19
[translations from the Korean of Nansŏrhŏn]
Kim Cushman/Fighting the Angel [translation from the French of Jacques Prévert]/20
Thomas Feeny/A Deserted Town Square [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/20-21
Kim Cushman/Untitled [translation from the French of Benoît Conort]/21
Joseph Hart/Maxx/22
Dwayne Barrick/Poison Ivy/22
Jean Wong/Blackberries/23
Michael Fraley/Octopus/23
Wortley Clutterbuck/The Monument/24-25
Marc Darnell/Volume/25
Ken Poyner/Panic/26
Dan Campion/Tunnel Vision/27
Frank Salvidio/Revelation/27
Gary Lee Barkow/Pietà/28
John Tustin/Cross of Circumstance/28-29
David Stephenson/Innkeeper/29
Charles Wilkinson/The Word Cage/30
Dennis Herrell/What You See/31
Susan McLean/The Long Game/31
Ellie Portner/Cups and Bowls/32
Andrea Potos/In the Garden of Keats/32
Carol Casey/Words on a String/33
Jane Blanchard/Ratio/34
S. Martin/Glosselle: W.B. Yeats/34
Alex McKeown/Fatras after Yeats/35
Alex McKeown/Fatras 10 [translation from the Old French of Watriquet de Couvin]/35
B. Anderson/The Natural Order/36
Rich Heller/Specially Reserved/37
E. Stock/Gift/38
Nancy Vieira Couto/Change in the Weather/38-39
Matthew Brennan/With My Late Brother, Mike/40
George Bandy/Untitled/41
James Scannell McCormick/Portrait of a Lady/41
Stephen M. Dickey/Untitled/42
Steve Abbott/Not on Any Map/42-43
Stephen Praytor/Untitled/43
Ryan Scariano/Black/44
     Heroin/44
John Hart/To a Confessional Poet/44
Louise Robertson/You Did Not/45
Carolyn Raphael/Loving the Work of Hateful Men/45
Richard Weaver/The Sins of Our Fathers/46
Sorayya Moss/War/47
Margaret Rooney/Warriors/47
Robert Cooperman/The Toolbox/48
Laurence W. Thomas/Fathers and Sons/49
Danny P. Barbare/The Janitor’s Cloth/50
Mary Lucina/The Fingerprint/50
George Held/Epigram VII.11/51
Epigram VII.33/51
[translations from the Latin of Martial]
Carol Hamilton/Bending/52
John Marvin/Sing, Sing, Zing/52-53
Sara Wilson/The Artificer’s Attempt at Assembly/54
Patricia Nelson/Archetype/55
     Arthur Is Dead/55
Marcia Camino/The Hunger Artists/56
Sally Nacker/Blue/56-57
James Shay/Painting Half Dome/57
David Capps/Rot/58
Michael Cadnum/Silverfish/59
Michael J. Shepley/Bird, Midnight/60
Contributors and index/61-64

Our cover features a mural painting of Procris and the Unicorn (c. 1520) by Bernardino Luini. According to legend, the unicorn purified water by the act of dipping in its horn.