David Seiter, Author at Dialogue Journal

Kick and Muff

I hear the fist-sized heart
cannon in the fog of rhythm
death and future.
From it I take the few things

Don’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction

Custom/culture; sacred/profane; vision/imagination; literal/figurative—call them borderlands, call them crossroads—we catch glimpses of possibility and more fully understand the limits of our faith in these places. And the place where “Mormon” crosses “literature” looks like the…

Passing On, Holiday

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

It’s Christmas
and our mothers, weary in their memories,
in their good for others (those holiday chores)
keep their feet under them like birds.

Hard Publics

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

Not their felon, not their lackey, you.
After the sclerosis of your tissues,
the emulsifying of your fluids,
reprieve

Revival

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

One day we were healed
by a man in a tent.
You remember. We had driven
streets of Four Castle,