Blue Unicorn – Volume 46, Number 1 (Fall 2022)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on tilting toward form/5
Frontispiece/Squirrel and Grapevine/6
Stephen C. Pollock/Both Out Far and In Deep/7
Dan Coyle/Trees/8
Robert Heard/A Different Wood/9
Robin Helweg-Larsen/This Ape I Am/10-11
David Stephenson/Toolmaker/11
Mary Cresswell/Blackbird Gone/12
Marly Youmans/Catharsis/12
David Anthony Sam/The Wilderness/13
Charlotte Blair/It Must Have Been the Apple/13
Tom Sheehan/Hermit Island, Maine/14
John Hart/The Rebellion/14
Emily Dickinson/To Make a Prairie/15
Judy Koren/To Make a Prairie, 21^st Century Version/15
Scott Davidson/Caution Enters Our Summer Conversations/16
August Reynolds/V/17
Scott Davidson/From the Sky/17
Henry Harlan/Indeed a Name/18
Tom Laichas/At the Whole Foods Parking Lot, Bullets Graze Her Leg/19
Dan Campion/Peaceful Means/19
Chad Rand/Forever Is Much Longer Than You Know/20
Donald Wheelock/Particles/21
Matthew Brennan/Valentine’s Day, Thirty Years Ago/21
Dennis Herrell/An Offering/22
Christian Ward/Saffron/22
Ryan Nelson/Walking the Beach/23
Matthew Sisson/A Bitter Cup/23
Ruth Berman/Balancing the Books/24
Hilary Biehl/First Fishing Trip/24-25
Garret Keizer/Relative Distances/26
Dennis Herrell/Mothers/26
Chad Rand/On Writing for My Mom/27
Donald Wheelock/Man of Leisure Writing Verse/27
Gerald Friedman/Baby/28
Louis Hunt/Afraid of the Dark/28-29
Patricia Nelson/The Wolf in the Story/29
Michael Mingo/Abstract on a Poor Performance/30
Gerry Sloan/Ode to the Obicularis Oris/31
Richard Jordan/The Coda/31
Bibhu Padhi/Another Need/32
James B. Nicola/Uncle/33
Jo-Anne Cappeluti/What a 60-Something Woman Sees in the Mirror/34
Diana Cole/Reckoning/34
Hilary Biehl/The Door/35
T R Poulson/You Can’t Tell the Wind Not to Blow/35
Marilynn Talal/Certain Mornings/36
Duane K. Caylor/Waiting/36
Carolyn Martin/Untold/37
Judith R. Robinson/Ox-Woman/38
Richard Weaver/I Crawl Across the Darkest Point/39
Stephen Kingsnorth/Craft/40
P. H. Crosby/Inscape/40
Jane Blanchard/Wretched Writer/41
Jeff Graham/Sketchbook: Artist: Real and Imaginary/41
Ted Charnley/Ode to a Pencil/41
Jeff Burt/Knowing My Place/42
Marc Darnell/The Sower/42-43
Ryan Scariano/A Frank Admission/43
Paul Malamud/February/44
Douglas Colston/Attende·Vel·Ignora Re·Signa·In·Vita·Tua/44
George Held/Epigram VII, 5 [translation from the Latin of Martial/45
Gale Acuff/At Church It’s All About Heaven and Hell/46
Maxwell MacaArthur/Roads to God/46
Leo Aylen/A Speaking Silence/47
Clarence Caddell/Vicar of Christ/47
Maggie Palmer/The Wanderer/48
Tad Tuleja/Ring of Bone/48-49
Kelli Simpson/Blackberries/50
J.L. Irish/In Step/50
Constance Rowell Mastores/Nostos/51
Patricia Darcy/Disappearing Acts/52
Matthew J. Spireng/Thesaurus/52
Anna J. Arredondo/Off Beat/53
Frank X. Christmas/Facts/53
Jane Blanchard/Her Majesty’s Latest “Sincere Wish”/53
Jerry Sexton/Nowadays, Everyone Says/53
Stephen Thomas Roberts/The Family Portrait/53-54
Barbara Lydecker Crane/A Certain Symmetry/54
Kelli Simpson/Where We Were Happy/56
Susan McLean/Hunger Moon/56
Lyra Wei/Aubade Emptying into Ocean/57
Kathleen McCann/Within/58
Marisca Pichette/I Never Learned the Word/58
X.J. Kennedy/The Man Who Wore Two Watches/59
Simon Perchik/*/59
Friends of Blue Unicorn/60
Note on the cover/60
Contributors and index/60-64