Derk Koldewyn
DERK KOLDEWYN resides in North Salt Lake City, Utah, and manages Waldenbooks #1458 in Sandy, Utah. "Sister Dallon Gets Tattooed" is the first chapter in a novel-in-progress titled "Conspiracy Theories." It also won the 1993 Ann Doty Memorial Fiction Award at Brigham Young Uni- versity, Provo, Utah.
To the single men of the church
Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 3
who sit singly, as I do, on unkempt
beds in dingy small rooms among their own
litter and cast-off clothes; who slump
against walls watching late-nite TV instead
Becoming a Writer
Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 1
Early on, in class, the smooth new pencils,
the ice-white paper, copper-bladed rulers,
all spoke order, a progression of lines.
Exercising the Priesthood
Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 1
A Wednesday evening
down in the back
of the chapel, we played
King of the Mountain on the
Resurrection
Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 3
One gunmetal day, late fall,
a fat shabby robin tired
of flying in her natural world,
desired to swoop across our couch,
Cap Meets the Prophet Brigham
Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 4
On the third day he stopped for a deserved rest,
though not intentionally. The bishop, she explained,
was hunting pheasants and wouldn’t be back
for hours. So he collapsed into a straw bed
Sister Dallon Gets Tattooed
Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4
Johnny take a walk With your sister the moon Let her pale light in To fill up your room You’ve been living underground Eating from a can You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand U2, “Mysterious Ways” Sister Alice Dallon…
Read moreCaught Gull, Plowing
Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 1
At five, standing at the edge of the field,
Dad up there on the great green Deere,
I must have been scared he’d leave.
He made me an offer: Catch me a seagull
Companionship
Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 1
We’d had problems, especially lately:
Just last week I snapped at him
and found myself staring into the outraged eyes
of a former national rugby star, his one fist