The Brighter House

Kim Garcia speaks in the language of delicate and mesmerizing touch without ever falling into precious sentimentality. 

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
Yoüre 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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