
Les Blake
LES BLAKE {[email protected]} is a BYU graduate and lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Christy, and their three sons. His poetry has appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and Sunstone Magazine. He is also a past place winner in the Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest.
Four Passes on Mount Horeb
Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4
In winters it soothed me,
the wind blistering peals
through naked willows in the dark
outside my bedroom window,
while warm and bound I marked
lost spirits sounding in the cold.