To Name Mourning

Obituary: a notice of vessel change; Ponce de Leon’s espada as judgment of land; stinted red biography.

Eulogy: if I sing a song for you, throw citrus peels around a circle, is this a reverence, flower over dirt, at all?—
Voices are louder than written words, VOICES ARE LOUDER THAN WRITTEN WORDS
ARE VOICES LOUDER THAN WRITTEN WORDS?—

Elegy: dip white rose into tar; attempt to fling out poetry; moan in the night, moan loudly in the night.