Moving the Story, with Conviction: On the LDS Church and the Marriage Amendment

For them, 
there was no between 
they believed the tale 
and trekked to testify 
and walked and walked 

It explains now 
why it’s either for or against 

so much black and white 
in a world of gray 
so much hard and dry 
in the story 
so much certainty 
about eternity 
about unity 
that it should be 
about one cup and one rod 
when the black and white 
the hard and dry 
in actuality 
was before so gray 
so damp 
filled with girl-bones and bodies 
spinning on the axis of a first wife 
on emma 
on my mary hafen 
who wasn’t the first 
who walked anyway 
so wretchedly 
so damp 
so gray 
But now 
so black and white 
and hard and dry 
forgetting inheritance 
forgetting faith 
commanding the gray that 
walked 
from walking 
between ponds 
between piano keys