By Sarah Colby
Of all the fruits in the garden,I was the only one not named. I hung at your outstretched fingertips,easy reach when you stood tiptoe,a graceful dancer curved carefullyso as not to touch the serpent iridescentin the green shimmer beguiling you with promises of wisdom, denying death.And so you did eat, sunkyour teeth into my succulence,savored …
By Anne Thomas
While the long grain softensin the kitchen table of round-edgedhoney ash—fork-scarred,newsprint-stamped,marker-grazed, shin-grazing—my childhood steals along in socksand murmured songs. While the long grain ripensin the valley and the granite domeshimmers above the orchardsand the Japanese maple sinks its rootthrough the bottom of the potand the grey-copper cat suns on the patio,my childhood drifts with the …
By Marianne Hales
1.This churning river-lake eatsthe bridge and the road and the houseand the subdivision and the townand the pink scooter with a hand-drawnface that comes to the name of Scooty. Your mountain of a roof becomesa mole hill and you instinctively braceyourself as a refrigerator lolls byand then a branch and then a quiet dog.The water …
By Amanda Erdmann
I. Comedy Here is a story I love to tell at parties: On a sunny cold day in March, while I sat folding laundry, a fully grown male pheasant crashed into my living room window and died on my patio. I called my husband who was working in the hospital and asked him what to …
By Lara Niedermeyer
Many of our Segullah sisters are multi-artistically-talented. Whether they embrace more than one literary genre, produce stunning visual art in both 2D and 3D mediums, or are creators in both the written and fine art worlds—this artistry is an asset and a joy to our organization. In this special staff edition of the journal, we …
By Melonie Cannon
Do silent stones ache for light?buried deep under moss and pitch, heavy dirt and grasswaiting for someone to dig, finger-clench in a perfect fit,and carry them toward a new creation-to be their legs, their hands, their momentum,to become like man and move? plucking them up to rattle in a pocket,be a holy talisman, the border …
By Marci Lassen
We enter the yardduring early morning hourssearching for the sourceof a sound that woke usin the deep night,a calling out,but sleep was stillheavy and we allowedthe warmth of our bedto hold us. The morning is profoundin its silence, dew clingingto our feet. We stopour search to lamentthe dropping leavesof our potted tangerine.For months it promisedabundance, …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
Musings on my recent trip to Israel – by Linda Hoffman Kimball, photography by Linda Hoffman Kimball I recently returned from a tour of biblical and ancient archeological sites in Israel. Our guide, scholar Daniel O. McClellan, PhD – the active LDS biblical scholar whose podcast “Data over Dogma” is a compelling watch/listen for those …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
On a recent trip to Amsterdam I signed up for a tour to visit the Holocaust Names Memorial. Dedicated on 19 September 2021, 76 years after World War II, the monument displays walls of bricks with the names of more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
HONOR ALL WHO SERVE Veterans Day holiday – formerly known as Armistice Day (so designated after “The Great War” or World War 1 in 1918) – was signed into being on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. It was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 years after the conclusion …