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When I Swam for the Utah Valley Dolphins William Powley My mom could sleep each night without waking except when my ear ached so much I became a nightmare to my brothers. She rose from her bed, in her robe she swayed to boil water. She made warm medicine, while I lay down, aching side up. I listened close with ray good ear to her shuffle in the kitchen, open cupboards, she came in two or three minutes to my room. She dripped two drops into my eardrum. I waited for a pop and the wet to dry. What she whispered was softer than eardrops, better than any dream. WILLIAM POWLEY received his B.A. in English at Brigham Young University. His poems have appeared in BYU Studies, Sierra Nevada Review, Sunstone, Exponent II, Zarahemlah, and other journals. An earlier version of this poem appeared in the August 1991 New Era.
FICTION Ziontales: An Excerpt Kevin G. Barnhurst INTRODUCTION I WROTE THIS STORY UNDER A SPELL. I was living in Salt Lake City, not in the sprawl of the new suburbs, nor even in the politically correct neighborhoods of the East Bench or the Avenues near the university, but in the Marmalade District. Gentrification has since remade the area, but at that time and for much of its history, it was a backwater of decaying pioneer dwellings and odd apartments made from broken Victorian homes, squeezed onto the foothills below Ensign Peak. I took long walks on the steep, narrow streets, under the aging boxelders, and wondered about the gables of one house, and the provenance of a certain black walnut tree, and the oddity of a straight but narrow Wall Street with no financial futures. I also walked with my father to the place where I was born—just around the corner —to the places where he lived as a newlywed with my mother, now long dead. Even then the district was alive on the margins of upright Mormon life, just around the mountain from the proper neighborhoods where Brigham Young had lived. There the landmarks seemed grander —the temple and the Endowment House, the facade of the first ZCMI department store, the Eagle Gate where North Temple Street entered the prophet's estates, the gazebo around the only tree pioneers found in the valley. But I remember that the tree had been reduced to a stump. Its curious end led me to spin out an explanation. The voice I found for the yarn was officious and Victorian —an odd choice, I thought at the time, inspired by a flowery edition of the English fairy tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham. But I remember sensing that the choice was right. Now, with ten years' hindsight, I understand this odd phrasing. It is a proper Mormon voice, springing from the mercantile values and bourgeois East Coast civility that overtook the Mormons of the late nineteenth century. KEVIN BARNHURST lives and writes at Pond Lane in Stoddard, New Hampshire. To pay the bills, he is a visiting scholar in the School of the Arts and research fellow of the Media Studies Center, Columbia University. He was recently named associate professor and head of the graphic arts program in the School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. He wrote Ziontales/or his three sons, one of whom is enrolled in the New York Middle School for Writers in Manhattan. What follows is an excerpt from the introduction to Ziontales, along with one story from the collection.
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