The Body of the Lord’s Fair Night
April 3, 2018Florence Gradon was a good-looking girl, but her looks were nine out of ten parts spirit. Her skirts swung just so, while she danced, her brown hair liked its ribbons fine, and the great good…
DiaBLOGue
Oasis
April 3, 2018At dusk, the pool waits in silence,
found by your feet after you rip up
the map. Suddenly in the tangled grasses
and twilight the birds stop calling,
and the trees finger your face.
An Episode from the Memoirs of Elder Thomas, A Somewhat Less than Good and Faithful Servant
April 3, 2018[Tuesday, November 19.] Brother Duvalier—the branch president—had us out to his farm for dinner tonight. Which is to say, he had us out to milk cows with his farmhand while his wife made us dinner. …
Desert Bloom
April 3, 2018There are no maybes in the desert;
you have to be lizard-quick or shrivel and die.
The Rio Grande is muddy from its occasional pause,
here where survival is yes or no.
Editing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History
April 3, 2018Editing William Clayton, James B. Allen
A Response: The Politics of Mormon History, George D. Smith
A Reply, James B. Allen
A Rejoinder, George D. Smith
Stake Mission
April 3, 2018Their place was a junkyard with Joshuas,
and they’d play Mom and Pop
to any delinquent on the desert.
We’d be forever having
Laban’s Ghost: On Writing and Transgression
April 3, 2018In his 1955 classic work, Tristes Tropiques, French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss recorded a story of unintended social impact evoked by his introduction of writing to the illiterate Nambikwara of tropical Brazil. Several days after Levi-Strauss…
Kayenta
April 3, 2018Summers we paint relocation houses
on the res, beige and grey,
“Navajo white/’ our brushes dripping
Dutch Boy on red Arizona earth.
Pretender to the Throne? R.C. Evans and the Problem of Presidential Succession in the Reorganization
April 3, 2018Dialogue 30.2 (Summer 1997): 47–65
Born into a Canadian family living in St. Andrews, Ontario Province, on 20 October 1861 , Richard C. Evans rose to fame and power experienced by few other members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Moon Phases: Childhood
April 3, 2018when it topped the mountains
the shell of moon laid down
such plenty
all over the fields