[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
First, bless the burst of anger; its force will get you free. Then, bless the tears that follow; they will provide new sight. Bless your bare feet as you put them on the earth. Run.…
that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there ª waits while ● gets her bearings. It always takes a little while, he says. ● lifts her spirit nose, trying and…
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…
[…] 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 […]
[…] last sister passed—her ashes await a grave in Burley where alfalfa and cottonwoods are greening this mid -spring beneath sun and rain and moon. I remember, from my childhood, a night near the river, […]