Lara Candland

Lara Candland {[email protected]} is a prize-winning poet, performer, and librettist. She is the creator of eight operas with composer Christian Asplund, a co-founder of Seattle Experimental Opera, and the author of Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree (BlazeVox). She has been published in numerous literary journals and is a member of the duo Lalage with Asplund, a band working with poetry, voice, and live electronic looping and manipulations.

& the day that i believe is known as pentecost to some

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

(((some 50 days later)))
nostalgia tempts us—to long for early spring and the newly risen—
the surprise at the open tomb
the gingersnaps & the whoopie pies & today

easter sunday : : : thinking of you all the way

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

(in which mormons worldwide, on easter 2015,
do NOT have church service or partake of god’s flesh & blood)

Hsie T’iao** writes a complaint near the Jade Stairs:

o hear

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

o here
lord—here
is a platter of treats & refreshment
in that high priest’s hands—

the vulture-ism of the world (((since god isn’t here)))

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

muted to inspiration
since god isn’t here