The Stars Saw God
November 4, 2020[…] saw the spinning ball or the parade outside— I saw his vacant expression shine out like God -rays through the clouds. Clarity in absolutes. And so, when he came down the steps, pillow in […]
[…] saw the spinning ball or the parade outside— I saw his vacant expression shine out like God -rays through the clouds. Clarity in absolutes. And so, when he came down the steps, pillow in […]
set the hour for their reunion.She’s under the greencanopy in the closed coffin. She signed away her body,except for her skin,so her hip bones might be recycled into screws to repair broken anklesor wedges to…
To the Ones who Awakened the Universe with a word And set the Cosmos afire. God -Mom and God–Dad— Stretching forth our hands, We pluck from the Tree of Life. For our mortal lives […]
[…] Canyon, is set during the Great Depression and features a Mormon protagonist, Hiram Woolley, who uses faith -powered folk magic to face down old evil within a new and fast–changing world. There is a […]
[…] are played according to clearly defined rules. The world of D. J. Butler’s Witchy War novels is an old -growth forest, a kaleidoscope, the stomach of a shark—growing thickly with a thousand different things, constantly shifting […]
[…] How could I ever go to class on that campus where, about two years after every self -respecting kid on the block, I’d finally learned to ride a bike? My ward chafed. Mormonism itself […]
[…] through pilgrimage, both automotive and digital. Anderson and her narrator bleed together in the drives to sun -drenched towns and sun–stripped cemeteries, tracing genealogical roots and mining journals, maps, and microfiche newspaper archives. There […]
In March of 1895, in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière screened ten short, single -shot films for an audience of two hundred, and the movies were born. Less than ten months later, after years […]
[…] author’s younger self, the titular chapter “Irreversible Things” opens with the sound of cicadas. As a born -and–raised southerner myself, I remember being a child and listening to the rhythmic wailing of thousands of […]
[…] in a physical way, implying that the spiritual and physical are unnecessary distinctions. This idea of desire -as–prayer/ordinance recurs throughout later poems. It emerges in the cigarette smoke of her father, who is killing […]