The Hosanna Shout
March 15, 2018When the Mormons asked sculptor Cyrus Dallin for a statue of their Angel Moroni to top the Salt Lake Temple, initially he refused by saying he didn’t believe in angels.
When the Mormons asked sculptor Cyrus Dallin for a statue of their Angel Moroni to top the Salt Lake Temple, initially he refused by saying he didn’t believe in angels.
My grandson, ten, hates the rain, as he does this Sunday morning when dark clouds bring the sky down.
The intensive care unit had never seen such a hostess How was the show? And what did they serve? We brought her primary stew A fresh fruit bouquet
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The gods of asphalt and pure dirt Do not disdain each other’s tread. The jungle’s feet Stalk through the city like lost deer
It’s the Schubert piece that does it . . . tonight you are moved into the dark to come where white roots are suddenly remembered, growing beautifully out of soil walls of a cellar […]
Where deep water widens and silks past the river island, you move through tall grasses downhill riverside, crouch through overhang and find yourself beneath a great low catalpa, broad leaves
Sometimes you speak and I hear the words between us,
[…] a polemical treatise from late antiquity, Tertullian famously asked, “What does Jerusalem have to do with Athens?” The readers of this essay might ask a similar rhetorical question of “What does Kashi have to […]
A breath of dark earth; The moist brown-black humus Enfolds my body. Tingling