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My mama’s hands
April 10, 2018can hold eight eggs
when she walks from the
refrigerator to the stove,
bacon fat popping out
Toward an Introduction to a Psychobiography of Joseph Smith
April 10, 2018
Storytime
April 9, 2018Even now in the stony
courtyard under withered
vines the characters
One Face of the Hero: In Search of the Mythological Joseph Smith
April 9, 2018Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247
Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
Early Winter
April 9, 2018Home from the dance in a howling blizzard.
The kitchen door blown open.
A heap of snow swirled onto linoleum.
I’m entranced at the violence,
The Locations of Joseph Smith’s Early Treasure Quests
April 9, 2018Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 197–231
Vogel uses firsthand accounts of people’s reactions to Joseph Smith’s treasure digging.
Clean
April 9, 2018Creekbottom
pushes up between our toes
like mushrooms.
Summer water
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection
April 9, 2018
Listening to Mozart’s Requiem While Crossing the San Rafael
April 9, 2018The Requiem matched
the smell of death
on the leather of my coat,
and the fear in the music