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THE NAMING

Lopez, Jurgens, Lozowsky, O’Connor, Lomax

(Shoes, and spirals, dust, and the falling flowers)

Díaz, Dingle, Galletti, DiPasquale,

Katsimatides

Wounds widen the remembering earth.

Closed eyes see beyond the flames.

Grief opens hands to feel the wind.

Heart beats like ocean and hears the names:

DiStefano, Eisenberg, Chung, Green, Dolan,

(Women running suddenly in their high heels)

Penny, York, Duarte, Elferis, Sliwak,

Yamamadala,

Closed eyes see beyond the flames.

Grief opens hands to feel the wind.

Heart beats like ocean and hears the names.

Wounds widen the remembering earth:

Weinstein, Villanueva, West, Sadaque,

(Spirals, dust and spiraling dust and hours)

Bowman, Burns, Kawauchi, Buchanan, Reilly,

Reese, Ognibene,

Grief opens hands to feel the wind.

Heart beats like ocean and hears the names.

Wounds widen the remembering earth.

Closed eyes see beyond the flames.

Kushitani, Ueltzhoffer, Wong, Ferrugio,

(Breathed in only in or beyond the naming),

Inghilterra, Tzemis, Liangthanasam,

Coladonato—

Heart beats like ocean and hears the names.

Wounds widen the remembering earth.

Closed eyes see beyond the flames.

Grief opens hands to feel the wind.

Sanchez, Talbot, Afflito, Siskopoulos

(Every question with a long sob of naming)

Tarantino, Zempoaltecatl, Thorpe, Koo,

Stergiopoulos,

Zion, Zinzi, Song, Shahid, Santiago,

Ortiz, Pabon, Ou, O’Neill, Newton-Carter,

Miller, Mohammed,

Zakhary, Campbell,

Deming, DiFranco,

Chowdhury, Blackwell,

Zucker, McDowell,

Goldstein, Basmajian . . .

Wounds widen the remembering earth.

Closed eyes see beyond the flames.

Grief opens hands to feel the wind.

Heart beats like ocean and hears the names.