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Snows
April 9, 2018That snow falling out there, not in flakes
But in clusters of flake, little snow balls
Loosened by November’s sun still barely struggling
Through the harvest haze, snow falling
Ethnicity, Diversity, and Conflict
April 9, 2018
The Time Traveler Comes to Cana
April 9, 2018So I went to Cana and spent Sabbath
in that house, their guest, before the wedding.
The daughter spoke with joy of her marriage;
the mother sat impatient—Sabbath’s end
March Children
April 9, 2018Her head nestled in the palm of my hand
not so long ago,
little lips tugged my breast,
fingers pink as birthday candles
The Dream of Mormon Sovereignty Ends | Donald R. Moorman with Gene A. Sessions, Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War
April 9, 2018Donald R. Moorman’s literate account of the Utah War is set within the larger panorama of events in mid-nineteenth century America and relates the process by which the isolated Mormon community in the Great Basin…
Negative Space
April 9, 2018It’s hard being Mormon Mormon mind regards nipples
Reproductive Rights and the “New” American Family | Robin Fox, Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology Law, and Society
April 9, 2018Of great importance in the study of Mormon interrelationships is how polygyny fits into the larger picture of the modern American family. In his witty, provocative volume on reproductive rights and law in Ameri can…
Welfare as Warfare | Garth L. Mangum and Bruce D. Blumell, The Mormons’ War on Poverty: A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990
April 7, 2018Although this book has an overly dramatic title, it is a magnificent and sensitive history of the efforts by church members and leaders to respond meaningfully to economic need, not only in LDS communities but…
Razor Sharp
April 7, 2018You, my father,
Too damned independent at seventy-five
To admit you could no longer handle
A simple double-edge Gillette,