Table of Contents
Tales of the Sisters: Snow 7
In My City of Z, Forgiveness 8
How I Learned to Talk 10
And in the beginning was all the after 11
Oil 14
Strangers 15
Miracle 17
Tales of the Sisters: Bees 18
Rumpelstiltskin 19
The Little Golden Books: The Toad Princess 20
: Queen Babel
: Little Man 21
For my father and the cancer that killed him 22
1943, How We Got Made 23
Tales of the Sisters: The Walrus 24
Thor 25
You’re All the Gods to Me 26
Transfusion, 2 pm 27
This Remains 29
The Dead in Summer 30
echo, echo 32
Sonnet 33
We Say 34
Tales of the Sisters: Cherries 35
Aubade 37
Blessing 38
Unicorn and Virgin, Cloister Tapestries 39
Fixed 40
Annunciation 41
Prayer on the Feast of the Assumption 42
Tales of the Sisters: Atlantis 43
The Child Steps into the Dream Water to Declare her Existence 44
Ophelia Emerges From the River, Unscathed 45
Black Madonna 46
Tales of the Sisters: Judgment 48
Grief 50
Early Morning 51
Paschal Triptych: Spring’s dead child heaves her stone 52
: Stranger, this happiness 52
: The net is cast 52
Unkind, Inclement Month 54
Shifting Light/Columbia River Gorge 55
Lilies of the Field 56
Tales of the Sisters: Mermaids 57
the mystic crucifixion by Tintoretto 58
Corpse Pose 59
Inauguration 60
Tilth of snow 61
The Dead Wait on the Living to Go on Living 62
It’s simpler 63
lifting heaven from its shelf 64
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