The Shyster
October 26, 2018Arne met Leanne Holburn at church during his final year in an MBA program at the University of Washington. He found her very attractive. Of medium height, she had sculpted cheeks, an aquiline nose, and…
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The Making of a Hard, Then Softened Heart in The Book of Laman | Mette Harrison, The Book of Laman
October 26, 2018A fallen prophet. An abandoned wife and mother. A starving little brother. A big brother whose street smarts and steel are the linchpin to his family’s survival. The cast of Mette Harrison’s alternative telling of…
Soft
October 26, 2018A drive for its own sake
five o’clock on a lazy New Year’s Day,
our kids, aged two and one, coming down
from the cocktail of cousins and sugar.
A Better Country
October 26, 2018With seedling splintered bone and seminal tears
They planted furrows of themselves to please
The God of distant rest, whose mysteries
Confirmed the city and sustained its seers.
That We May Be One: A Personal Journey | Tom Christofferson, That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith and Family
October 26, 2018Tom Christofferson’s That We May Be One exploded onto the LDS book market with a series of news releases, interviews, and appearances.It represents a gigantic leap in the Deseret Book LDS conversation on LGBTQ+ (hereafter: gay) members since the publication of Ty Mansfield’s In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-gender Attraction.Even the use of the descriptor “gay” in place of “same-gender attraction” still raises the hackles of many in the faith.In contrast to Mansfield’s desperate struggle, Tom Christofferson declares “There is nothing intrinsically about who I am that is offensive to God.”
Come to Zion
October 26, 2018Six months after she’d divorced her most recent husband, Sue kicked back the silk sheets one chilly morning and decided to take back her maiden name. She packed her bags, grabbed a cab to Charles…
Poema de Halloween, 2001
October 26, 2018Hoy cayó Halloween en las montañas
(el terror de un millón de calabazas)
y las calles de Utah se poblaron
de fantasmas y de brujas.
Alpha
October 26, 20181. An advent: ancient archangels architect abstract astronomy and
arid asteroids.
2. All asteroids appeared amorphous and absent; And all asleep across
aquatic anarchy. And astral angels advanced across area.
Sonnet—For Solstice
October 26, 2018Look:
My wife’s distended belly reaches
Into the room as if it wishes
To announce a separate humanity
In curves both out from and into her body.
Agency of all that matters
October 26, 2018 Images, of now, in time, examined by five senses
change when science lifts the edges of perception
and we see what used to be legend laid bare
by numbers and their manipulation.