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I am afraid to name her.
What if I call it wrong?
If my moniker choice resists
story, history, or song?


Details of breeding and face,
habits, regrets, disgrace...
These I'll slap on her like travel stickers on a suitcase,
but a name?


So much weight.
So I wait.

One false christening could render her
uninteresting and ugly.
But then,
even Scarlet O'Hara was first Penelope.