Freak show, a classmate said. Watch them parade down Main on July 24, singing Come, Come Ye Saints, horse and wagon, aproned women, babies in gingham. Toddlers in sunbonnets on their fathers’ shoulders, men in cotton blouses with tin cups lashed to belts. A freak show, she said, after a short Utah residence. I told […]
Dayna Patterson
Dayna Patterson is the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her creative work has appeared recently in POETRY, Crab Orchard Review, and Passages North. She is the founding editor in chief of Psaltery & Lyre and a coeditor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. For more information, visit daynapatterson.com.