Blue Unicorn – Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2022)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on rejection/5
Frontispiece/A Game of Bones by Chester Arnold/6
Jon B. Miller/Looking Back on My Death/7
Brandon Dumont/The Human Sun/8
Susie Gharib/When the Wind Blows/8
Michael Cadnum/Down Evening/9
Simon Perchik/*/9
Shutta Crum/Some, Too Indifferent to Spring Winds/10
Emily Kingery/Winter/10
Kate Deimling/Forsythia in Snow/11
Carol L. Gloor/Theater of Rain/12
Charles Weld/April Rain/12-13
Deborah H. Doolittle/Anne Killigrew’s Less Than Fond Farewell to the Wood Anemone/13
Robert Heard/Forever Stone/14
Michael Fraley/Crickets/14
Ryan Nelson/On the Surface/15
            Channel Catfish Sonnet/15
Daril Bentley/Rider/16
Sam Robertson/Stick with the Regime/16
Jane Rosenberg LaForge/Physical Therapy/16-17
Martin Mc Carthy/When My Shop Was a Ship/18
Norman Goodwin/Henrietta Lacks/18
Don Brandis/At Borders/19
Warren Nadvornick/Landscape with No Land/20
Patrick Kennedy/Atlantis/20
Warren Nadvornick/Burnt Sienna Sky/21
Daniel J. Langton/Postscript/21
Joanne Stokkink/I Am My Beloved’s and My Beloved Is Mine/22
Martha Kahane/Lingua Franca/23
Robert Cooperman/Arrangements/24
Mark Whitney/The Body Yet to Be/25
Dan Campion/The Conspiracy/25
Robert E. Tanner/A Thought on Youth [translation from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin]/26
Thomas Olivieri/On Texting Drunk/26
Anthony C./September 12, 2023/27
John Perrault/Closer Than We Thought/28
Frank Salvidio/“Words, Words, Words”/28
Laurence W. Thomas/The End of Desire/29
B. E. Stock/Visitation/29
Patrick Kennedy/Portrait Gallery/30
Sean Patrick/Sonnet for a Painting/30
Paul Malamud/To a Roman Glass Sprinkler/31
Dan Volk/Blue Print/32
Diane Lee Moomey/Mineral Passion/32
Leslie Schultz/The Craft of Poetry/33
JB Mulligan/Cluttered Skies/33
J. P. Celia/Preamble/34
Ken Poyner/Work Rules/35
J-T Kelly/Genesis 9:20/35
Stephen D. Jordan/Window Washer/36
Mark B. Hamilton/Streetwise, Riverwise/37
Claire J. Baker/Border Crossing/38
Martha E. Bosworth/Out of the Iron Maiden/39
Re-Entry/39
Jeff Graham/Existence by Train/40-41
Thomas Feeny/The White Stork [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/41
Lola Haskins/Scarbo/42-43
Donald Wheelock/Hunger and the Hawk/43
Marcus Smith/People Ask Me/44
Burt Beckmann/A Syllogism on Pleasure/44
S. M. Tsai/Empty Cups/45
Ed Hack/What Silence Said/45
Joel Van Valin/Ares/46
George Freek/The Blackbird Plays a Boxwood Flute/46-47
Maxwell MacArthur/Death of a Buddha/47
Alan Steinle/If God Is Free/48
Matt Dennison/There Should Be an Animal/48
Daril Bentley/Rumor Has It/49
Alamgir Hashmi/Testing Ground/49
Katherine Spadaro/Visiting My Parents’ House/50
Richard Weaver/Après Borges/50
Denise Dumars/Untitled/51
Matthew Brennan/In My Grandfather’s Backyard, on His Final Easter/51
B. Anderson/The Last to Go/52
Leanne Ellul/Father Counts His Years/52-53
Kathryn Jacobs/Paying Court/53
Franklin Gillette/Epigrams/54
Susan McLean/Transmutation [translation from the Middle French of Charles d’Orléans]/54
John Hart/It Seems to Me and I/55
Lynn D. Gilbert/A Sonnet for You and Yours/55
Julieta Fuentes Roll/There Is a Time for Uprooting/56
Jane Blanchard/Malediction/57
Gary Metheny/Quiet Talk on a Winter Morning/57
Kathryn Jacobs/Human Beans/58
Tad Tuleja/Ring of Bone/58-59
John Grey/Bathers/60
Mark Taksa/Hat I Catch/60
Contributors and index/61-64

Our cover features an illustration from a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript.