Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley

The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Photo Essay: Evening fog in Provo.

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Blurry branches that don't move: cotton lights. Secure and warm. Dissolved and indistinct. A modern family. ...
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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Photo Essay: The thin red line between mountain and heaven.

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01/02/2020 The thin red line between mountain and heaven 02/01/2020 Tossing the light back to me. Thanks, mo...

Crazy Henry Gets Married.

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I hadn't seen Crazy Henry in a while. His iguana had gotten sick. An iguana, I might add, that he insisted was a monkey, not a lizard....

Let them fall by their own counsels

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Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have  rebe...

The Good Luck Cafe.

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(Dedicated to Tim Carman) On my way back from The Hamsters I stopped at a roadside place called 'The Good Luck Cafe' for a piece ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Made known unto them beforehand.

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Telling them of things which must shortly come, that they might know and remember at the time of their coming that they had been made kn...

The Chandelier Maker.

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My Bohemian mother and my Venetian father began my training in prisms and soda glass when I was too young to realize how dangerous refrac...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

The Bus Ride.

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When I turned 66 I became convinced, because of my reading of Zen Buddhist books, that every time I went to bed I woke up a different per...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

I will make thy food become sweet

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I will make thy food become sweet, that ye  cook  it not . . . 1 Nephi 17:12 Before I touch my daily meat I pray the Lord to make it...
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