Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97
For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning the sacred Kaaba at Mecca.”
In the dark,
a cat will fly on rain-slicked blacktop
like a bat,
hydroplaning, flicking malevolence sideways
out of fluorescent eyes.
Book of Mormon criticism is entering an era envisioned by hypertext pioneer Vannevar Bush in 1945 in which [w]holly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them…
What are the greatest books ever written within Mormonism? Without question, one would name Jesus the Christ and The Articles of Faith by James E. Talmage. Alternatively, one might think of Evidences and Reconciliations by John…
Entering St. John
Population 1440
Leaving St. John
Visit Us Again!
All winter and into spring Charlie Sutton tended his wife as best he could. It was awkward from the start, knowing that the outcome was never really in doubt. The cancer that Bettie defeated six…
Johnny take a walk With your sister the moon Let her pale light in To fill up your room You’ve been living underground Eating from a can You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand U2, “Mysterious Ways” Sister Alice Dallon…
Out of sleep
Levitation
Stirrups of light
Palms aglow
Cheek to pillow I slide my scalp up
away from my ear the way I lifted the mother of pearl stem on the
silver lid
that closed and opened to disappear under itself
Over the years Lavina Fielding Anderson’s friendship and approval have helped me understand I am a real, if irregular, Mormon. It is therefore ironic that she, who believes so devoutly, has been excommunicated while I…