Brothers
March 27, 2018About a year and a half after Mitch fell, he decided on a comeback climb. Understandably, his wife was less than enthusiastic about it. Everyone agreed the fall should have killed Mitch or, worse, made…
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Saturday Evening, Sunday Afternoon
March 27, 2018At thirty-eight I’m still single. Actually, let me be perfectly frank: Possibly Steve Young and I are the only people in the Western Hemisphere who have remained celibate until such an advanced age, and he…
Listening to the Lord
March 27, 2018A rare treat in Manila—real grass,
short and green, probing tentatively
out of rich soil. The sky
waits to rain—black clouds
Driven
March 27, 2018For my father-in-law, who knew the conflict Alvin Hawking awoke two hours after dusk. He slipped out of his cot and dressed in the dim yellow light that washed through the screen door at the…
Breach Birth: Aug. 20, 1891
March 27, 2018He is born breach, meaning gap.
From the beginning
he was negative space
a blue cast shadow,
Utah Territory, 1893
March 27, 2018A washed cup,
folded socks,
three unworn shirts
with no scent of him.
Smooth bedsheets,
dry towels.
Delineation
March 27, 2018October snow brings the hunters
down from the mountains
without their kill. Sometimes
it happens this way. Sumac and oak
Confessions of a Modern Day Mobber
March 27, 2018I have persecuted Mormons for years for ten years. I began riding with the mob in the early 90’s while working for the Utah County Journal. Asked one day to write a quick editorial for…
Body Blue: Excerpts from a Novoir
March 27, 2018To write is to siphon the clouds, the stars, the wind and rain through the pen. It’s like holding a root into the earth of the soul. It’s like a channel from the sun to…
Jude’s Use of the Pseudepigraphal Book of 1 Enoch
March 26, 2018It has been rightly stated that the Epistle of Jude is the most neglected book in the New Testament.[1] Such an assertion was made in 1975 by Douglas Rowston, who noticed that, “[w]ith the exception…