Blue Unicorn – Volume 45, Number 1 (Fall 2021)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on mystery/5
Frontispiece/A Fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls/6
The Prison Poet/The Secret Parable of the Hidden Locusts/7
George Held/The Wolf [translation from the French of Arthur Rimbaud/8
Fred Ostrander/Imagination/8-9
William A. Holt/Pentheus to Dionysos/9
Mid Walsh/Ora Et Labora/10
Lorne Mook/Progress [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/10
Bob Carlton/“wind/or not . . . ”/11
Richard Schiffman/Icarus Revised/11
Jerry Sexton/Soundscape/12
Alexander Lopez/The Sea’s Sound/13
Claudia Buckholts/Wheatfield/14
Sohaib Aboona/A Lyric Confession to the Sun/14
Diane Webster/The Pond/15
Alan Smith Soto/Counterpoint/15
Michael Cadnum/Absolute/16
Richard Merelman/Drought/16
Paul Telles/This Gala Apple/17
Bonnie Thomas/Gone/17
Matthew J. Spireng/Dusk, November/18
Holly Guran/Bare Limbs/18
Matilda Lin Berke/Rotary Dial/19
Judy Koren/Persimmon/20
Cathy Porter/Us, For the Best/20-21
John Tustin/Scattered Blue Footprints/21
Carol Casey/Matter/22
Trevor Price/The Mathematical Paper/22
L. Ward Abel/Free Will and Geology/23
Robert Heard/Our Birds/24
Jeffrey Clapp/Yourself/24
Robert Estes/Self-Analysis/25
Robert Boucheron/The Day Before Tomorrow/25
Laura Ann Reed/He Comes Back to Apologize/26
Kevin Shyne/Before Her Next Admission/26
Richard Swanson/Roomnesia/28
Matthew J. Spireng/Our Skin Thins/29
Dan Campion/The Fifteenth Edition/30
Andrea Kibel/Individual Winters/30
Charles Wilkinson/The Old Man & the Orchid/31
Paul Willis/Orange Plastic Post/32
Laurence W. Thomas/Marginalized/32
David Galef/Nohow/33
Seth Jani/Hurricane Lamp/33
Jeff Graham/Nocturne 1/34
Alan Elyshevitz/Insomnia, Part XV/34
Joseph Hart/The Candle Smoke Is Rising/35
Thomas Feeny/On Waking/[translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/35
Ted Charnley/As He Is to Us/36
Ken Poyner/Death in the Field/36-37
P. Celia/Him and Her/38
Rob James/Dishabille/38-39
Joshua St. Claire/Aubade: Milk and Bread/39
Donald Wheelock/Credo in Short Sentences/40
Alan Steinle/Communication/40-41
Jane Blanchard/Disconnections/41
Joseph Hart/Thanksgiving/42
Henry Harlan/Sharing at Tavern on a Party Evening/42
Tom Bauer/Even If Such Love Does Not Exist/43
Peter Austin/Krystal/43
Kenneth Tokuno/Stop Light/44
D. S. Maolalai/I Asked Was She OK?/45
Dennis Herrell/Women #2/46
Mark J. Mitchell/Eve/46
George Bandy/Untitled/47
Kelley Jean White/Throat/47
Leslie Gerber/Without My Shoes/48
Barbara Daniels/Shock of Blue/49
George Freek/I Think of My Future (After Tu Fu)/50
Don Russ/Imagine/50-51
Bruce Parker/Kokopelli of the Senses/51
Ellen Pickus/Liminal/52
Erica Goss/Donating Books to St. Vincent De Paul/52-53
Cloe Watson/On Making Myself Known/53
Evalyn Torrant/Second Story Sunlight, 1960/54
Jo-Anne Cappeluti/Christmas Email/55
Barbara Lydecker Crane/My Arrangement with Mother/55
Donald Carlson/Exit Fee/56
Duane K. Caylor/Pandemic Parallel/56
Judith R. Robinson/Picnic at Belarus/57
Matt Levin/Hungry Ghosts/58
Estelle Solomon/The Ticking Animal/58-59
Paul Malamud/Fufluns, Etruscan Spirit of House and Home/60
Friends of Blue Unicorn/60
Contributors/61-64

Our cover features a page from Topografia Christiana, circa CE 1000, by Cosimas the India-Farer.  It contains the first known unicorn image in Europe. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.