Entire Unto Himself
April 11, 2018Already cold and stiff by the time I arrived,
It was a shallow shadow, gray against black;
A collar of blood fringed its matted coat.
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Women Alone: The Economic and Emotional Plight of Early LDS Women
April 11, 2018Even under the best of circumstances, life in the mid-nineteenth century was not easy for Mormon women. Often repeatedly uprooted from their homes, they left behind family, friends, neighbors, and community to pursue their new…
Latter-day Myths About Counseling and Psychotherapy
April 11, 2018John[1] was deeply depressed and believed there was no chance that he would get better. He felt worthless, unworthy, and vile and was certain that the world would be better off without him. Occasionally the…
The Pulpit
April 11, 2018It is a last bastion,
The pulpit. Prominent
Among muscular box shapes;
Fenced off and jutting skyward
Before the Wall Fell: Mormons in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-89
April 11, 2018On 9 November 1989 the world stood transfixed as television sets around the globe transmitted the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of thousands of East Germans streamed into Berlin to mount the wall or…
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?
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.