Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

easter sunday : : : thinking of you all the way

(in which mormons worldwide, on easter 2015,  
            do NOT have church service or partake of god’s flesh & blood)

Hsie T’iao** writes a complaint near the Jade Stairs: 

she lowers her pearl screen/ fireflies in the garden flit & pause
            this long night, stitching silk, thinking of him, she believes will never end 

And Hsiao Kang** writes: 

one wild goose calls, ‘where am i going?’ 
            if he had known he’d lose his flock 
                        he would have begun his journey alone 

& : : : 

had i known i would lose my congregation 
or that i would be lost in that midst 
            a dark goose in a light gaggle 
& no trumpet              no solo