Helen Candland Stark
HELEN CANDLAND STARK, a BYU graduate, has contributed to Mormon periodicals for over fifty years from Delaware and, more recently, Salem and Provo, Utah. These sonnets are, she says, "a sampling of fifty years of assorted Christmas messages (some mailed in August of the following year) that have taken the form, not only of verse but also of letters, photographs, songs, and combinations thereof."
Grains of Life: Fragments of a Sonnet Cycle
Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 1
If I could give to you a dew-wrapped day,
You have no need to tell me — I should know
That you would use it all to make things grow.
The furling bud, the fruiting branch are pay