Remuneration
March 27, 2018The price is higher than he expects
he smiles, wondering if it
has something to do with the new
black fishnets
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The Lone and Dreary World
March 27, 2018But Adam and Eve wept for having come out of the garden, their first abode. . . And Adam said to Eve, “Look at thine eyes, and at mine, which afore beheld angels in heaven.…
Water Will
March 27, 2018In that first summer before a town was
(Only tents and wagonbeds), they tossed
Pails of water over the sun-scorched canvas.
“Without a Cause” and “Ships of Tarshish”: A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith
March 27, 2018On Tuesday, the second of July, a fatigued but cheerful Sydney Rigdon took up his pen and addressed himself to a blank sheet of paper laying before him on a wooden writing table. At the…
Trouble in Eternity
March 27, 2018The trouble is in eternity, the Angels say,
Where my Mormon husband twenty years
Divorced believes in his sleep that we
Are married still. Always he is sleeping
Endowing the Olympic Masses: Light of the World
March 27, 2018Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference Center.…
Nobody’s Grandpa
March 27, 2018He paid the three-twenty
three and slipped the familiar
red and white box into
his jacket pocket.
Spinning Gold: Mormonism and the Olympic Games
March 27, 2018As in the lives of individuals, certain events in the lives of cities leave such a mark that time is thenceforth measured in terms of before and after. For example, following the Columbian Exposition that brought more than 27 million people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch of parks and buildings along Chicago’s Lake Michigan waterfront continues to be a reminder that this Mid-western metropolis was once host to the world.
The Empty Cistern
March 27, 2018Silence and grace,
the only words I know
in either of their languages,
so I don’t say much.
Science and Religion: A Dialogue: Response
March 27, 2018When I saw the title David Allred chose for his remarks, I wondered if he would directly address the issues I’d raised in my essay. I’m afraid I don’t think he did, and I will…