name

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name is a windy thing 
quiet down a hall

                       leaks through hinges 
does it want to be caught?

I don’t know, tipped fangs, fire-points—
                                        want to be caught?

I think people bundle a name with them from place to place 
in a basement, a bottle

of wind

a bottle of turn-it-over

I have so much holler in me

Daneen Wardrop

‘s most recent books include Life as It (Ashland Poetry Press, 2016), Cyclorama (Fordham University Press, 2015), Civil War Nurse Narratives (University of Iowa Press, 2015), and Crossings in Text and Textile (University Press of New England, 2015, coedited with Katherine Joslin). Life as It received the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, FIELD, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions online, New American Writing, and Notre Dame Review.

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