Almost Pentecostal
March 26, 2018Mrs. Robinson sang in the choir. In the church, my face, my husband’s, and one other white couple on the stage.
Mrs. Robinson sang in the choir. In the church, my face, my husband’s, and one other white couple on the stage.
I live in a Motherless house, A broken home. How it happened I cannot learn.
My people were Mormon pioneers. Is the blood still good? They stood in awe as truth Flew by like a dove And dropped a feather in the West. Where truth flies you follow If […]
We couldn’t say the yes that would loosen our grip, tutoring us in doing without. Some things were simply snatched away.
In the interval after the mastectomy before her head was a slick white egg, she would color the gray roots of her dark blanket-soft hair with drugstore dye.
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Across a shattered street, a Muslim groom lifts the train of his Christian bride as he steps over broken glass, old tires, and miles of rubblestone. Her face, a dark rose, is the only […]
Out of a dream a fragrance overwhelms me: not saffron, not lavender but something in between:
I knew it was dawn With the sun blurring whitely Through the gray clouds, But I’m glad someone wrote that. The light and the words make a bridge Across the water to the sand.