Vicarious
March 27, 2018For and in behalf of those dead
before God’s love could smother
them. I enter the font and take a baptism.
Buried in the temple’s basement, twelve
garlanded oxen balance the precarious
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From Three Jacks
March 27, 2018Sunrise, Friday, November, 22,1963, not yet but about to be one ugly day in U.S. history, and standing over there about to climb into the family Nova was my dad, Jack, the man suffering—in words…
Havesu
March 27, 2018He watches Elain’s buttocks, the tan shorts browned at the seat, as she walks briskly ahead of him on the narrow trail. Her dirty orange day pack bounces on her back, the leaky canteen a…
Liahona
March 27, 2018After he was let go, Dad’s job
was changing the rolls on those
little spindles in the bathrooms.
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
March 27, 2018Luis strained his ears, watching bare jacaranda branches twitch in silhouette against the bedroom wall. The bedroom window was sliding up. It was not a dream. A human shadow was nearly indivisible from the web…
Christian Spinning
March 27, 2018My son who is blue-eyed and sensitive
thinks he’s alone in his room
where his music bumps and heaves.
I stand unseen at the door which is open
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…
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…