Double Exposure
April 11, 2018The picture gathers from a host of things—
From giggles of remembering, not play
By play but one word lifting from another
Into a rearview record, a happy weather
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How Common the Principle? Women as Plural Wives in 1860
April 11, 2018Dialogue 26.2 (Summer 1993): 139–153
A study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.
Sacrament Prayer
April 11, 2018It’s the simplicity I like, no pulpit thunder,
no fiery “Thou shalt nots” rattling the soul.
A set prayer, phrases you can roll around
your mouth all week, then string together
Each in Her Own Time: Four Zinas
April 11, 2018
Brando
April 11, 2018Marlon Brando’s such a babe in Guys and Dolls,
it’s an ideal, makes you feel
positively reverent, same as orange blossoms,
the way they delicately ask to seduce
Warren Travels With His Father
April 11, 2018in the
dense Montana heat, the BLM vehicle musty
and smelling of oil, sweat, and age.
A Strange Phenomena: Ernest L. Wilkinson, the LDS Church, and Utah Politics
April 11, 2018For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had been fascinated by the nature and use of power. By the time he was fifty, he had secured a string of hard-won national victories as a tenacious and intimidating legalist. But the lure of politics remained the one attraction, despite other professional and personal accomplishments, he could not resist.
Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts
April 11, 2018From the 1950s to the 1980s Ezra Taft Benson was at the center of a series of political conflicts within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1943 he became a member of…
Decoration Day
April 11, 2018No funeral today, but the town
has business at its cemetery.
Dust leads the procession;
handles of rakes and hoes protrude