Blue Unicorn – Volume 48, Number 1 (Fall 2024)

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CONTENTS

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Frontispiece: Nic Van Bruggen
Ruben Van Luijk/Litany XXVIII [translation from the Flemish of Nic Van Bruggen]/7
            Litany XXXII [Van Bruggen]/7
Eric Colburn/Early September/8
Laura Ann Reed/Autumn Garden/8
Bonnie Thomas/September’s Pause/9
Becky Kennedy/Red Light/10
            Quiet/11
Judith Saunders/Excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s Cookbook:  New Year’s Sweetmeats/12
Ted Charnley/Thankskeeping/12
S. Muir/Dutch Painting of a Lady and Feast/13
Peggy Landsman/On My Seventieth Birthday/13
R.L. Barth/Knowing the Black Ox/14
Libby Maxey/Distal/14-15
Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin/Scat/15
Eric Colburn/The Revenant [after the French of Charles Baudelaire]/16
Lynn Gilbert/Those Damn Owls [translation from the French of Charles Baudelaire]/16-17
Hilary Biehl/After Baudelaire’s “The Albatross”/17
Kim Cushman/Bottom [translation from the French of Arthur Rimbaud] /18
           Dawn [Rimbaud]/18
           Democracy [Rimbaud]/19
           Anguish [Rimbaud]/19
Mary Cresswell/Nimbus/20
Stelios Mormoris/Belle-Île/20
David Reuter/Deer at Night/21
Rowan Tate/Consummation/22
Kathryn Kimball/Shamhat on the Eve of Enkidu’s Initiation/22-23
James Ryan/Chiron’s Prayer/23
Lindsay McLeod/Should’ve/24
Simon MacCulloch/Jasmina/24
Jacob Spears/Seeing Things/25
Dominic Palmer/Gordian Heart/25
Mark Rich/In Ferns/26
Thomas Feeny/Sun and Shadow [translation from the Italian of Ada Negri]/26-27
Mary Ford Neal/Flames/27
Jane Blanchard/The Kerf/28
Dudley Stone/Cat Poem/28
Cheryl Snell/Explaining Divorce To the Dog/29
           Custody/29
           Support/29
           Visitation/29
Perry L. Powell/As You Say/30
J.A. Wagner/Maybe Lost/30
Clarence Caddell/Asubha Vasana/31
E.M. Schorb/The Road to Nowhere/31
Dennis Herrell/That Day/32
Clarence Caddell/A Fresh Start/32
Kathryn Temple/The Real/33
C.M. Gigliotti/Regrets to a Neighbor/34
Paul Rapley/Rescued from Drowning/34
R.L. Barth/The Antique Furniture Collector/35
S. Muir/Backbone With Song/35
Lynn Gilbert/Secrets/36
John Marvin/Images/36
Joseph Kenyon/After the Bloom Falls/37
James Appleby/Longhand/38
Richard Laurberg/Career/38
David Stephenson/Psalm of David/39
Jeffrey Essmann/Abraham/40
           Isaac/40
           Jacob/40
Alexis Levitin/With Harsh Words, Joseph Spoke [translation from the Portuguese of Leonor Scliar-Cabral]/41
Ethan McGuire/Crossing the River [translation from the Chinese of Yue Fei]/42
           The Echoes of Hooves [Yue Fei]/42
           A River South [Yue Fei]/42
Duane K. Caylor/Lazarus/43
Stephen C. Middleton/Blues Compounds/44
Colin Jeffrey Morris/(Still, Yet)/44-45
Martin Jago/Maintenance/46
Arthur Powers/“Today He Passed from Life . . .”/46-47
Terence Culleton/Aunts/47
Daniel J. Langton/Pantoum for Kymrie Mills/48
J. Alan Nelson/Tomb Rock/49
Judith R. Robinson/Limbo/49
J.A. Wagner/Gay Nineties/50
J.D. Smith/Brazil Nut/50
David Dumouriez/Iniquity in a Country Churchyard/51
Bob Brussack/All Your Silence/52
Michael Cadnum/After the Quake/52
Megan Swaine/Fossils/53
Stuart Jay Silverman/In the afterglow/53
Jeff Graham/From Sketchbook Artist:  Real and Imaginary/54
Philip Kobylarz/Seashore Seashells/55
           Feline Fine/55
Dan Campion/Godzilla/56
Richard Weaver/The Lonely Giraffe/56
Craig Kurtz/Pied Piper/57
Dennis Herrell/Transgender and Bathrooms/58
Vaughn Fritts/“O what’s the weather in a Beard?”/58
Carolyn Raphael/Compound Words in Motion/59
Terry Firkins/Anger/60
Ralph La Rosa/Blood and Sand/60
Laurence W. Thomas/Pantoum for Peace/61
Judy Clarence/Rooster in the Valley/62
Richard Collins/The Next Generation/63
Myrna Stone/From Robert Frost’s Common Practicums/63
Allen Strous/Clock and Mirror/64
Friends of Blue Unicorn/65
Note on our cover/65
Contributors and index/66-70