“My Father’s Business”: Thomas Taylor and Mormon Frontier Economic Enterprise
Shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah in July 1847 Brigham Young planned for an anticipated population explosion by exploring the region and locating sites which could support new settlements and industries. Parley P. Pratt…
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Lucifer’s Obit.
We note, today, the passing
of our most dreared departed—
father of lies, child of perdition,
mother of woes, and friend to sin.
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Cargoes II
Tanker from al-Kuwayt on the Persian Gulf
Passes the Straits of Hormuz (which Americans hold),
With a cargo of “black gold”—
Gas and petroleum—
For further refinement in Galveston.
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Flannel Board
I’ve been inured to violence, so understand,
I’ve no sensation for nails smashing through feet:
Instead, show the tale of footprints on the beach,
because I know how sore feet get in sand.
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The Feeling of Knowing | Tyler Chadwick, ed., Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets
For me, poetry’s unique power is to hold in immediate suspension what we know and how we know it. Poets surpass philosophers in representing a harmonious tension of ontology and epistemology. We renew through the condensation of poetic language the feeling of knowing most authentically. The poems in Fire in the Pasture are not wanting. As a group of poems, Fire succeeds admirably in renewing our feelings of knowing.
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