Yellow Hair
April 11, 2018I have got a blond, it’s true.
The others comment,
laugh behind their hands:
where did that one come from?
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A New Kind of Abuse | David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen, The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church, and Ronald M. Enroth, Churches That Abuse
April 11, 2018Considering the level of popular attention recently focused on physical, sexual, even ritual abuse, the discovery of “spiritual abuse” should come as no surprise. And yet it does. The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse is…
Sestina for the Coming Fall
April 11, 2018In fall, I try to understand the dying
of so many innocent leaves. The changes
happen imperceptibly, till the once-verdant is carmine
or golden, but such pulsing color is only
prelude to their silent fall to the dark flesh
of life that decayed before them. A nectarine
One on the Aisle
April 11, 2018Paula had the aisle seat. Her younger brother Tony was in the middle, next to Sugar, and the two of them pressed against the window and each other and pointed at cloud formations. Down below…
Saint Theresa and the Lepress
April 11, 2018Few teeth remain in her mouth,
And the mouth exhales rottenness.
I turn my back, my nose.
Still she presses in.
Jesus the Peasant
April 11, 2018Scattered across the countryside one may observe certain wild animals , male and female, dark, livid and burnt by the sun, attached to the earth which they dig and turn over with invincible stubbornness. However,…
What El Salvador Meant to a Three-year-old
April 11, 2018an iguana in our empty pool
his eyes jumping wild
a metal fence around the yard
where naked boys waited outside for food
On Spectral Evidence
April 11, 2018October 3, 1992, the first day of the 162d semiannual LDS general conference, was the 300th anniversary of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on American religious devotion, had resulted in the deaths of twenty people, all of whom vigorously proclaimed their innocence to the end.
Dissent in the Church: Toward a Workable Definition
April 11, 2018There are many in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who believe we need a workable definition of religious dissent in order to help make way for more serious debate over its legitimacy…
Beth-lehem
April 11, 2018Jacob and Rachel
But a little way to come to Beth-lehem,
and the pains came hard upon her. She heard,
“Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.”