Emma Lou Thayne
Emma Lou Warner Thayne was a poet and novelist. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and counted as one of the 75 most significant Mormon poets. Thayne graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. She would later return there to coach tennis and teach English
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Kill the Poets
Read moreBedouin Lullaby
Here at my breast, my dark-eyed child,
Taste of your worth and sleep a while.
Under the tent of the black goat’s wool
Safe from the cold and the wind, be full.
To the Bedouin Woman
Let me bring home your dark eyes
and the secret of their holiness,
your quick fingers and your fine
pride in the black tent they weave.
Old Woman Driving
She lives on a street of white haired men
with time for hosing the cracks.
She goes to funerals amid people
whose names she cannot remember,
Hold
Gray day with a brown leaf refusing
at the end of a wind to drop,
why is the crabbed clinging
so intricate a part of the dance?
How Much for the Earth? A Suite of Poems: About Time for Considering
The peril of extinction brings us up against this reality, this simple basic fact: Before there can be good or evil, service or harm, lamenting or rejoicing, there must be life.[1] About Considering Consider is…
Read moreMeditations on the Heavens
On the night of 16 November 1985, Halley’s Comet was said to be visible just to the right of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, in the eastern sky. That night, ten of us from the…
Read moreYou Heal
One morning you wake
and everything works
and almost nothing hurts.
After seven months of returning
Things Happen
Things happen. Early in the world you travel into them. One day
You rise without prayer in a far camp and silently hurry away.
Having slept under stars and still breathing the greyed fire,
Who would take time to suppose this the middle of a lifetime?