
Mark D. Bennion
Mark D. Bennion {[email protected]} has worked as a faculty member in the English Department of Brigham Young University–Idaho since 2000. His poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Aethlon, BYU Studies Quarterly, The Comstock Review, The Cresset, and Iodine Poetry Journal. Last year his second collection of poems—Forsythia—was published by Aldrich Press. He and his wife, Kristine, are the parents of five children.
Sestina of the Martyrdom
Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 3
On the long tether of a day in June
Beyond the Zion swamps, the prisoned palms
Of four men opened toward a promised land.
And yet, below the shadows of limestone
Joseph thought again, I am going
Like a lamb to the slaughter.