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What Shall We See?

I’m still haunted by a woman who died in our intensive care unit a decade ago. She was eighteen weeks pregnant and had a kidney infection serious enough that her lungs failed. She quickly ended up on maximal life support, barely surviving from day to day.

On My Art

1952. I was born in Canada and raised in Utah. Received a BFA and MFA from BYU and taught printmaking there for sixteen years. Drawing and then painting desert landscape has been my primary focus…

Bode and Iris

Listen to the piece here. It may seem odd that an experienced fornicator like Bode Carpenter would get the girl pregnant in the first place—particularly because he carried a condom in the watch pocket of…

New & Everlasting

The former widow  
                                                and the former widower
seem happy  

Sweater

Horizontal stripes 
black and white 

The Moldau in a Utah Living Room

I most recall the river music. Smetana’s Moldau 

meandered often into the air at our house, 
European classical sounding in the high Utah parroquia.