Tag: naming
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Lake Ontario/Lake America
I wrote Lake Ontario / Lake America after reading about political renaming as a form of ownership. The poem examines how language tries to overwrite geography, but the object—the lake—remains indifferent.
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing With the DeadBegin by calling her by name,not the one etched on the granite monument in front of you,not the one printed on the birth certificate—that temporary name another motherwas forced to dream upin the haze of post-labor fade,in the ecstasy of seeing youfor the first time—something that grew for nine monthsinside this other,and…
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We only name the heartbeats shared
Alike heartbeats are called out in the evenings radiance:a slouch of bears awakening from a long slumber into the rising spring- the receding snow bringing the feast of a winter’s kill, memories of honeyed searches.a host of house sparrows creating nests in the corner eavesof every Elm Street roof, far away from the doors of…
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The Water Calls Us Down
The water call us down.She names us and we call her ours. Down we goand we sleep.Awakenedwe remember- that blue pool-the one with no bottom.