Thistle Field
April 1, 2018So speaks King Saul:
I want this modest man of war
David, dead.
Snare him with a string
So speaks King Saul:
I want this modest man of war
David, dead.
Snare him with a string
Julie was asked to be baptized for the dead. Her teacher, Mrs. Dixon, had read down the roll, asking the girls in alphabetical order. She had moved into Julie’s neighborhood, just up the street in…
Samuel was watching the door intently when they let José in. He stood up, smiled as if he were greeting an old friend. He opened his body toward the inmate and reached out, completing the…
Shirley is the punch line who holds the joke
while we wait like pieces on a game board
in the line that wanders
from the classrooms, through the halls,
The conceptual link between the state and the cosmos has been explored many times by scholars over the last several decades. Mircea Eliade gave us his reflections in his book The Myth of the Eternal…
I am told that not so long ago church Correlation adopted a policy of discouraging use of the word “Zion” in official publications and dis courses. Perhaps they felt that the term created an irrational…
Some thirty years ago my faith in the Mormon church changed forever. I was twenty-eight years old, a husband, father, school teacher, high priest, and a highly idealistic and credulous young Mormon. Looking back, I…
I meet Miguel
bear hugging him from behind
tense tendons in his neck
rage squeezing out his eyes:
In her 1974 essay, “The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith,” Jan Shipps con fronted the anomalies in the historical record concerning Smith, noting: “What we have in Mormon…
The only motion here is an old
Dodge pickup leading a coil
of white exhaust across
the horizon—a snow-dusted