Blue Unicorn – Volume 46, Number 2 (Spring 2023)

Description

CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on what’s up at BU/5
Frontispiece/Coast Live Oak by Debby Turrietta/6
Jeff Graham/Triptych: Duality/7-8
Danny Burdett/Chalkings/8
Alfred Fournier/Kite/9
Bonnie Thomas/The Stillness of Summer’s Ease/9
Dion O’Reilly/Pink Moon/10
Estelle Solomon/Consolation/11
DB Jonas/L’Chaim/12-13
Robin Gow/Invasive/13
John Grey/A Young Woman Picking Apples/14-15
Bibhu Padhi/Body/15
Paul O. Jenkins/Old Welsh Air/16
David Starkey/Omnia Vincit Amor/16
Gary Metheny/“Who Cooks for You?”/17
Moray McGowan/There Are Lovers/17
Melanie McCabe/In the Days of Country-Club Blondes/18
Steven Ray Smith/Dance/19
Gail White/Eve Discusses Adam’s First Wife/20
Glenn Irvin/An Astriction: Belying Conjugation/20-21
Kari Martindale/Plateau/22
Mark Rich/The Vole/22
RK Fauth/Bees Rebrand/23
Becky Kennedy/Walking After Midnight/23
Alexander Pepple/Prayer for a Daughter/24
DB Jonas/Aubade: To a Suicide/24-25
Paul Bernstein/A Prayer for the Departed/26
Jason Visconti/Summer on the Moon/27
Deborah-Zenha Adams/I Have Questions (Short Roundel, Modified)/27
Marisa Campbell/Noah and the Wolf/28
Frederick Pollack/Adventures in the Lowlands/28-29
Noah Berlatsky/The Key/29
Ruth Berman/Miriam the Prophetess/30
Elijah Perseus Blumov/Lot’s Wife/31
The Flood/31
Lucas Smith/Swords of Eden/32
Matthew J. Spireng/62 Degrees, Rain, December 11, Upstate New York/32-33
David Chorlton/Hummingbird Prophecy/33
Barbara Draper/It Happens Like This/34
Jesse Keith Butler/The Boatwright/34-35
Judith R. Robinson/Still/36-37
Perry L. Powell/Dying to Hear/37
Christopher L. Dornin/My Mother Died in Her Sleep/38
Jackie K. White/Fury Psalm 9/38
Alexander Perez/Last Rites/39
R.S. Benson/Polished Black Shoes/40
Terence Culleton/Memorial Day/40-41
Robert Villanueva/Regret/42
Alan Steinle/Poem from Exile [translation from the Spanish of Rafael Alberti]/42
Robert Okaji/Interrogation/43
Dennis Williams/They All Came Out for My 60th/43
James B. Nicola/What It Is/44
Laura Schaffer/Verse Blank/44
Toastingfork/Drop the Tittles/45
Greg Huteson/Pesky Little Varmints/45
E.M. Schorb/Atget/46
James B. Nicola/French/47
David Lee Garrison/Soria Fría, Soria Pura [translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/48
Thomas Feeny/Old Songs I/translation from the Spanish of Antonio Machado]/49
Ellen Pickus/Miniature Room/50
Matthew J. Spireng/Following Form/51
Steve Wilson/Dog-Eared Triolet/51
Joseph S. Salemi/Time Capsule/52
David Stephenson/Paint Factory Fire/52-53
Jane Blanchard/Diana/53
Robert Cooperman/Terrorized by Health Ed: Dimas Junior High School, 1964/54
Susan McLean/Fairy Tale: Corrections/55
Meredith Weiers/Lookout/56
Ray Malone/Steps 24/56-57
Stephen Dickey/Roads I’ve Taken/57
Adam Day/Redoubt/58
John Dorroh/Raw/58
E.P. Fisher/Gesture, Motion: Murmur, Utter/59
Kim Cushman/Always [translation from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire]/60
JB Mulligan/Ghazal (Without Eyes)/61
Burt Beckmann/Angels Flying/61
Leslie Schultz/Conception/62
Mark J. Mitchell/Full Fathom/62-63
Luca D’Anselmi/Bard Camp/63
Joanne Stokkink/Si Si Begone/64
Joseph Paulson/On Muttering/64
Contributors and Index/65-70

OUR COVER  features a pile of inflatable toys on the shore of Black Lake, Michigan. Design by the Van Sickle family.  Photo by Helen Schoenhals Hart.