Richard Siken - Saying Your Names

I read this poem twice before I realized that it was a Richard Siken, it seems lately to always be Richard Siken, you go Richard Siken. 

See also Scheherezade. 

fuckyeahpoetry:

Chemical names, bird names, names of fire
and flight and snow, baby names, paint names,
delicate names like bones in the body,
Rumplestiltskin names that are always changing,
names that no one’s ever able to figure out.
Names of spells and names of hexes, names
cursed quietly under the…

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