By Ada Limón (b. 1976)
A Name
When Eve walked among
the animals and named them—
nightingale, red-shouldered hawk,
fiddler crab, fallow deer—
I wonder if she ever wanted
them to speak back, looked into
their wide wonderful eyes and
whispered, Name me, name me.
Ada Limón (b.1976) is the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate. From The Carrying (Milkweed, 2018), p. 3.
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