[…] fornication (sex between unmarried people) and adultery. Adultery is an even more serious offense when compounded by breaking of temple covenants. Mormon beliefs would place adultery “next to murder” in gravity. It seems unlikely […]
Even with the explosion of scholarly interest in Mormonism over the past fifteen years, students of American religion still wait for a systematic and synthetic treatment of the development of Mormon theology. Central to […]
[…] melted snow from his boots with my bare toes. I could hear all the logic in the world. I heard of presents hid under beds appearing under the tree on Christmas morn. I even […]
She adds up all the names people have given her over the years: ‘Vain, difficult, cold.” Someone once told her that
[…] me like green semaphores.” So do they in her poems. In “Writing Copy” the grotesque in the news floods into a real day and “the sheepish guy in the parking/ terrace who waits in […]
July twenty-third in the canyon is almost like hell-fire—sulfurous hot waves off the powdery earth while the children play in the trees,
One late afternoon just before sunset, the Prophet with white hair like the mane of a lion was walking by the sea with his friend, Fernando. They walked and talked about many things as […]
now that I’m old and know it I begin to glimpse the endless line
[…] forgotten how long Since I looked up in wonder at you Stroking that long shiny blade against The leather strop that hung like doom From the wooden frame of our medicine cabinet. Stroking back […]
[…] wife had clapped a shirt over her chest, was asking him didn’t he care if the whole world saw her bare. No, he did not. But he didn’t say. He went out. He went […]