Casualene Meyer

CASUALENE MEYER holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the Univer- sity of Southern Mississippi. She lives in Purvis, Mississippi, with her husband and two children.

Articles

Seconds Coming

Entering St. John
Population 1440

Leaving St. John
Visit Us Again!

Take These Depositions

Let’s talk of griefs,
of wombs,
of epithets.

Creations: Mississippi

Adam, I know,
came from this red clay.

I am ever created
of dust.

Multiply and Replenish

Adam’s sperm number
one hundred million per cubic centimeter,
hope he can comply with God’s command.

Thistle Field

So speaks King Saul:
I want this modest man of war
David, dead.
Snare him with a string