Southern Idaho Summer
April 18, 2018I was six.
I wheeled Grandpa’s milk cans out
to wait like patient soldiers for the cheese truck.
I strutted in a new red and blue
corduroy cowboy suit.
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“Strange Fever”: Women West | Kenneth L. Holmes, ed., Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trail, 1840-1890
April 18, 2018“This past winter there has been a strange fever raging here … . It seems to be contagious and it is raging terribly, nothing seems to stop it but to tear up and take a…
Another Attempt at Understanding | Kathryn Smoot Caldwell, The Principle
April 18, 2018The Principle, Kathryn Smoot Caldwell’s first novel, received the significant encouragement of first prize in Randall Book’s 1983 LDS Novel Writing Contest —$500 plus a $1,000 advance on royalties. (Second and third place winners Carol…
Not Quite What Was Promised, But Much More | Jonathan Bliss, Merchants and Miners in Utah: The Walker Brothers and Their Bank
April 18, 2018Merchants and Miners in Utah is a mis leading title, for Jonathan Bliss’s volume extends far beyond the boundaries of territorial Utah, extensive though they were, to tell the epic story of the Walker Brothers…
Returning
April 18, 2018Mouth over the reed,
you empty your feelings
into the hollow heart.
These are the pieces left:
Diaries
April 18, 2018I keep diaries in my head
At night I write on sealed pages
In dream codes a sort
Of dot-dot-dash Morse himself
A Rock, A Fir, and A Magpie
April 18, 2018Fern left Relief Society early. She had never done that before, but she had a headache. Or something. It wasn’t really a headache, but it was in her head. Or her neck, or back. It wasn’t…
A Reading Group
April 18, 2018I had just hung up my topcoat and scarf and tossed my jacket on the f unmade bed when the telephone rang. There was a time when I liked to hear that sound; it meant…
David and Bathsheba
April 18, 2018When I slid the damask
from its plastic sleeve
to spread it on the table,
the stain throbbed against crisp white.
Poetic Borrowing in Early Mormonism
April 18, 2018The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it seems, has had little ^ use for poetry that cannot be sung. The chief place of verse has always been the hymnal, and not without reason:…