Dialogue 56:2 (Summer 2023) 109 -112
“My wife has left me because I’m attracted to men. I can’t live with myself for hurting her. God has abandoned me for going against the teachings […]
[…] to write; someday we’re sure to see her name in print or neon lights!” as my fifth -grade teacher once wrote), I barreled off to BYU, declared an English major, and sailed on through […]
Grandpa filled gelcaps with his own mixof dried herbs. Before clean food,before expensive organics, beforewellness became photogenic,he was a health nut. I asked himwhy did he grind dried leavesthe color of new hay,why did he…
[…] no different from death. Death is no different from life. Life equals death. Death equals life. Co -coo, coo, coo, coo. Co–coo, coo, coo, coo. The pandemic struck me in the gut. Overcoming nothing. […]
Enjoy this poem in audio version here. But my diagnosis says otherwise. Depression oozes under my door: the destroying angel visits:until I can’t get out of bed. One week later I’m waving bloody hyssop like glow sticks at a ravenudging sushi…
Enjoy this poem in audio version here. Maybe it was envy that churned inside meas I looked around the room. Wonderingwhat healthy Mormons felt instead of fear. My body forced everyone to consider what it meant to be sick in…
[…] Knowest thou the condescension of God?” —1 Nephi 11:16 A body so light, it floated across wind -whipped waves and did not sink. So full of life, it survived empty forty days, no wheat […]
Enjoy this poem in audio version here. Prelude Something is not right. A haunting quaver to the world. Your mind feels viscous, your body watery. The lights have dimmed. The sense of […]
[…] belong to me, people who’ve left their bloody signatures in my genes, I found Melissa, some sixth great -great of mine, tucked into a corner of a census under her husband’s name, given one […]
[…] Sarah who laughed at the angel. She adds her name to prayer rolls, requests heavy -handed administrations, repeatedly and in variety except, of course, when it’s God’s will that […]