Do you know your given name,
can you spell it?
Can you pronounce it,
give it utterance?
What are you called -
- more names than one
Can you hold them all (at once)?
In the naked silence
and in the open vowels
you hold a mighty secret
A secret is a power
like a charged bomb
Hold the percussion in your chest -
- lungs vacuum burst
shock-waves through your throatexpanding -- a glotal mass
Your bright tongue and soft teeth
consonate like shrapnel
Your name a suspense and then
a crack -- arrival
How does it impact and settle?
That vulnerable moment,
eyes rolling about searching
a bit of spittle at the corners
of your working/resting mouth
What ears bend to your names?
what eyes close to implication?
what hearts beat with memory and promise?
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