Blue Unicorn – Volume 47, Number 2 (Spring 2024)

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CONTENTS

Editor’s remarks on an experiment/5
Frontispiece/“So numberless were those bad Angels seen” by Gustave Doré/ 6
Jayme Thomas/A Glory Uprises Toward Perdition/7
B.D. Cannon/If on the Summit/8
John Hart/Abraham Accords/8-9
Kaelan Grey/Down, Divinity/9
Mark J. Mitchell/Confessional/10
Richard Lewis/The First and Last Christian/10
Galen Cunningham/Forgiveness/11
Alan Steinle/If All Were One/11
Gillian Thomas/July/12-13
John Grey/A Morning in August/13
Stephen C. Pollock/Detours/14
John Zedolik/Rest Stop/14
Matthew J. Spireng/Driving a Country Road After Dark in July/15
Jeff Graham/Sketchbook Artist: Real and Imaginary 144/15
Greg Sendi/Strawberries/16
C.B. Anderson/Adaptation/17
Stephen Mogar/Life Across the Street From a Church After Daylight Saving Time/17
Jim Daniels/Devotional Oblivion/18
James Conroy/Understanding Silence/18
Joanne Stokkink/Little Blue Heron/18
Bob Carlton/The Granite Birds . . ./19
Mike Dillon/Home/19
Douglas Cole/Letter From an Exile/20
Sahand Farivar/Saskatchewan, 1883/20-21
Matthew J. Spireng/The Road Taken/21
Frank William Finney/Grovel Street/22
Justin Pulice/Sleepwalking to Atlantis/22
Catherine Owen/After a Form by Galway Kinnell That Also Uses the Word Winter in the 4^th Stanza/23
Christopher L. Dornin/Dust/24
     Listen/24
Mac McClelland/Open War/24
John Paul Caponigro/Mayday/25
Perry L. Powell/Fixing It Again/25
Joseph Powell/Glass/26
Ron McFarland/If the Eyes Are Windows to the Soul/26
Bob Carlton/Indifferent/27
D.T. Holt/Communion/28
JB Mulligan/Moon Cinquains/28
John Kucera/Flames/28
Stephen Massimilla/From “Vision of Intimate Distance”/29
Ira Rosenstein /One Moment of Love/29
Ryan Nelson/Fishing Report/30
James Patrick /La Belle Dame Sans Chaussure/30-31
Eric T. Racher/On the Copula as a Generator of Love’s Cartographies/32
Marc Wiegand/Sonnet 77: Motif/32
J.D. Lancaster/Cuts/33
Ken Gosse/A Skirt for Dessert/33
Paul Van Peenen/Elegy/34
Maggie Palmer/Dry Spell/34
Paul O. Jenkins/A Canny Sense of How/35
Ken Poyner/Argument/35
Jenna Lee/Collector’s Item/36
Rochelle Shapiro/Song/36
Alyssa Troy/Paint Brushes/37
Stuart Jay Silverman/A Final Tale/37
Fran Blake/Life III/38
Zhu Xiao Di/Land in Sight/39
Alessio Zanelli/The Pillars/39
John Saint Sylvain/Daybreak/40
Robert Lucier/Acceleration/40
Sohaib Aboona/A Prayer for None/41
Greg Huteson/But Answer Came There None/42
Barbara Lydecker Crane/Old Irish Superstitions/43
Tor Lee/Brother Backlit/44
     Still as a Life/44
James Braun/Antler/45
Susan McLean/Nightingale Pie/46
Allen Strous/Captain/47
Adam Torkelson/Grace/47
Darren C. Demaree/Emily as There’s Touch in It/48
Perry L. Powell/Bending/48
Mark J. Mitchell/Urban Relics/49
Joddy Murray/“I Only Keep That Job So I Can Keep This Job”/49
Benjamin Norman Pierce/A Toast/50
Perry L. Powell/Somewhere/51
Michael Salcman/A Mind in Flight/52
Tor Lee/Staring at the What?/53
Jane Blanchard/Physique/53
Mike Dillon/Undressed Rehearsal/54
Robert Heard/Killing Space/54
Terence Culleton/Faith/55
Garrett Miller/Processional/56
Noah Berlatsky/The Last Poem of Ricardo Reis/57
Ken Cathers/Lazarus Returns/58-59
Timothy Sandefur/The Whiteness of the Whale/59
Tom Docherty/A Poem       In       Parts/60-61
James Appleby/Other Ways of Saying/61
Donald Wheelock/What Stymies Me/62
Paul Willis/Assessment (II)/62
Ruth Holzer/Pareidolia/63
Donna Mancusi-Ungaro Hart and Stephen Eric Berry/The Cider
     Press [translation from the Italian of Pamela Proietti]/64
Stephen Massimilla/Orange [after Rainer Maria Rilke]/64
J.M. Pitt/The Word [after Stefan George]/65
Susan Charkes/Night Meditation [a version of the poem by Li Bai]/65
Contributors and Index/66