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Mercy, Elizabeth Smith

BYU Studies Quarterly

I merge into surging highway wind, my backseat baby babbles to the Tim-Tams macaroni yogurt burger cookies and bananas, and a crackling alto announces the world this hour: buildings burst in a distant port, scoundrel stabs doctor in a clinic past the mountains, furious inferno feasts on trees, towns just south of here.

Moon To Moon Nights, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies Quarterly

like time-lapse film, signify now a moment, now a lifetime. A bonedrift of stone shapes pale and rise like years along garden’s edge. . . .

What Her Missionary Son’S Letter Didn’T Say, Darlene Young

BYU Studies Quarterly

Rain hangs in the air. Even my underwear feels wet.

I listen to the tapping fingertips of the bodies of bugs hitting netting at night. Gray water. Bare floors.

Desert Harvest, Ben De Hoyos

BYU Studies Quarterly

At last, it came, The cleansing rain at the fading Of this long, parched day.

His Body Breaks, James Goldberg

BYU Studies Quarterly

His body breaks long before he hangs on the cross.

A Short Tribute To My Genealogical Butcher Chart, Linda Hoffman Kimball

BYU Studies Quarterly

If you were to parse me Like meat on a banner You’d find all my ancestors In parts or in manner.

All Things Sing Praise, Susan Elizabeth Howe

BYU Studies Quarterly

The anteater’s tongue licking praise in the tunnels of the termite mound.

The alpaca spitting praise, olé!

Serrano peppers’ praise in perspiration.

Plastic praise: the Taj Mahal, a million interlocking Lego blocks.

Bayou, Pamela J. Hamblin

BYU Studies Quarterly

Slowly the rain plays thin strings, plucking.