Blue Unicorn – Volume 49, Number 1 (Fall 2025)

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CONTENTS

Remarks: A Good-Bye and a Hello/5
Frontispiece/Walter Haussner and Stephen Bluestone/Albert Einstein at His Desk/6
Stephen Bluestone/The Old One/7-8
Walter Haussner and Stephen Bluestone/Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton Contemplate the Heart of It/9
Ross Belot and Sara Burant/Necessity (translation from the French of Paul Éluard)/10
Ali Asadollahi/The Candle Appeared and Said (translation from the Persian of Farīd-al-dīn Aṭṭār)/11
Aj Saur/Tell Me It’s Not a Phase/12
Christopher Childers/Something Else/12
Diego Calle/Jupiter/13
Ruben van Luijk/Sad But Honest Love Poem (translation from the   Flemish of Nic van Bruggen)/13
J.M. Pitt/Holy Longing (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)/14
Michael Yost/Genesis I/15
Betsy K. Brown/In Utero/15
Susan McLean/Knowing My Place/16
Carla Schwartz/For Hummingbirds, Who Prefer Red/16
Anton Getzlaf/Conscience/17
Daril Bentley/The Couple/17
Phil Bowen/Who Said What?/18
Joanne Merriam/Signal Flares/18
Colleen S. Harris/Ophelia Haunts Hamlet via Pantoum/19
John Dorroh/Like When You Walk Under Birds/20
John Perrault/Blossom Hill Reverie/20
Luke Dunne/In the Time Allotted for Breathing/21
Michael Neal Morris/I Become Noise/21
PM Flynn/Southern Drawl of Rain/22
Dan Janeiro/Water for My Father/23
Lorena Axman Freed/Likening/24
Laura Ann Reed/Bee Envy/24
Mike Meserve/Geraniums/25
Carrina Gordon/The Hunt/25
Robert S. King/After the Long Heat Wave/26
Bill Guest/Winter Storm Warning/26
Sohaib Aboona/Where the River Goes to Fall/27
Jeffery Allen Tobin/Testament in Winter/27
John Hart/The Expulsion/28
James Fox/Crowded Garden/28
Justin Pulice/The Walk/29
       Mama’s Boy/29
Milla van der Have/Transmigratory/30
Phillip Sterling/Ne’er-Do-Well/3
Michael C. Smith/Our Ridge/32
Chris Watkins/Apocalypse Narratives/33
Ken Poyner/Fast Forward/33
Marianne Gambaro/The Mouser in His Own Words/34
Dudley Stone/Feathers/35
Mike Smith/The Dog/35
Michael Biehl/Multiculturalism/36
Steven Ray Smith/Lunch/37
Joel Herzfeld/Outrage!/38-39
Richard Lewis/Mystery/40
Stuart Anderson/Splitting Wood/40
Sonya Wohletz/The Foundry/41
Robin Helweg-Larsen/Formal vs. Free/42
Ira Rosenstein/Transitional Sonnet/42
Benson Bobrick/Three Epigrams on Art/43
Joshua St. Claire/On Editing/43
Sigrun Susan Lane/We Regret/44-45
Danielle Benvenuto/No Regrets/45
Duane Niatum/Losing/46-47
Matthew Cory/Retirement/47
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer/Pain Is Just/48
Alan Steinle/All Things Must End/48
Noah Berlatsky/After Reznikoff/49
Steve Wilson/Obituary/49
Noah Berlatsky/Morphine (after Heinrich Heine)/50
Stephen Thomas/The Bottom/50-51
Tony Brinkley/Death Sentences 4/52
Ruth Berman/Quest/52
Toastingfork/Sleep in Solo/53
Samuel E. Blackburn/Swings by Night/53
Emi Alley/Testimony on the War Crime/54-55
Sergei Gerasimov/Dawn (translation from the Ukrainian of Dmitry Blizniuk)/55
Robin Styles Oliver/I War of a Life/56
Christopher L. Dornin/Coats of Blood/56
The Prison Poet, Prisoner #BJ0177/Breathing Goya’s Oil/57
       Prison Ghost/57
Jennifer Campbell/Antigone’s Street/58
Richard Lewis/Gilgamesh/58
Patricia Nelson/Guinevere Faces the Angry Crowd/59
Russell Rowland/Foot Traffic Only/60
Matthew Berg/Boxes/61
Matt Wigdahl/Conveyance/61
John K. Kruschke/Honor Among Sleeves/62
Elaine Miriam/Go Gentle/63
Daniel J. Langton/Noticing Three Blackbirds/64
Dan Campion/Certainty/64
Contributors and Index/65