Stanton Harris Hall
STANTON HARRIS HALL lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Sharon. “The Clearing” was read in the Seattle Washington North Stake during one of a series of firesides commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Articles
Leaving
Leaving you
leaves me wishing that I could hold you
like a small stone in my pocket
Fire in the Water
Barely a man
he stands trembling
water lapping at thighs in cotton white
right arm to the square
Templum: A Place Thought of as Holy
I. The coming
Inside this precise granite
the immensity of the walk comes home
Where Are the Horses?
I have awakened him from a deep sleep
slumped over in his blue vinyl and chrome wheelchair
and wrenched him from a scene
of young riders and sweating horses
The Clearing
Spring again.
The browns, the ochre,
the brittle death of fall and winter
recast in transcendent greens—
vibrant, transparent, resurgent.