In the Garden of Babel
April 29, 2020[…] her desk in her shared workroom at the top of the city’s tallest tower made of stem -cell ivory, where the windows look down on the densely populated streets of Babel, and pulls a […]
[…] her desk in her shared workroom at the top of the city’s tallest tower made of stem -cell ivory, where the windows look down on the densely populated streets of Babel, and pulls a […]
[…] to be naked at ten in the morning on Saturday. This was a conflict with my uber -religious community and my lifetime of body shame. I drove to the studio anyway. The artist greeted […]
[…] foyer not wanting to pass beyond the desk where old Mormon men with wrinkled smiles and thick -soled white loafers check the credentials of Mormons who want to attend the temple. To walk out […]
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…
[…] her dress (embroidered illusion neckline, cap sleeves, veiled corset bodice of Chantilly lace, mikado belt, tulle ball -gown skirt). She yells Yes!, he yells Yes!: his skin the color of inside a loaf of […]
[…] house, laughing, eating, Beth and her sisters teasing each other and telling their inside jokes. His father -in–law, Nathan, in his chair at the head of the table, his mother–in–law, Alicia, sitting just barely […]
[…] the moment I walked into the humidity and human warmth of the Atlanta airport after a two -year church mission in the former East Germany: though I’d loved and grown familiar with the land […]
[…] of other women. He opened his mouth to utter a cheery “Good morning,” but was arrested mid -word by the collective gasp of all three of the women as they turned to look at […]
[…] this somebody might be: the Palestinians, Mexican border crossers, old growth Douglas firs, the spotted owl, hump -backed whales? I imagined one of Reed’s windy, vainglorious speeches, a call to action to save the […]
[…] Dialogue is the oldest independent journal of Mormonism, publishing scholarship, poetry, art and fiction on the Latter -day Saint experience. Published quarterly in print and online, the journal encourages a variety of viewpoints to […]