Gerrit van Dyk

GERRIT VAN DYK {[email protected]} is an associate librarian of philosophy and Latter-day Saint history and doctrine at Brigham Young Uni￾versity. He earned an MA in English literature from BYU. His research and writing interests include devotional poetry, classics, philosophy of religion, and Latter-day Saint history, literature, and theology. Gerrit lives with his wife and five children nestled near the Wasatch Mountains

Acoustic

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

Podcast version of this piece. My devotion never translates to my fingers.There is something lost.The scaly chaff of my heart opens my lungs.I pinch my pic like a quillwhat can I scrawl in the dusk?…

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Hymn to a Maple

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

Podcast version of this piece. Your inverted slant is an acute notewest to east in the shaded sunrisesurrounded as you are by that moatof rocks and weeds, dry as a chalk line. One Goliath’s push…

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