Marilyn Nielson

Marilyn Nielson {[email protected]} graduated from Brigham Young University with a double major in Piano and Home Economics, and an English minor. Her poetry and personal essays have been published in Inscape, BYU Studies, BYU Magazine, Segullah, and the anthology of Mormon poets, Fire in the Pasture. She lives in Utah with her husband and their seven children.

Resolve

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

“The music keeps going and never stops,” 
I tell my son—“Until the bar line?” 
Of course, until the bar line. 
He moves his fingers into place with effort, 
As if moving in the third person; 
As if they are thin sausages on sticks.

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