Spell Me

name (noun):

1 a: a word or phrase that constitutes the distinctive designation of a person or thing

Say my name, say my name suggests movement. Say my name, say my name a summon. Say. If you call me everything to get my affections, my response to you is just echous phantom acknowledgment to someone I don’t resonate with. From mouth to speak, mouth, speak — hope that it reaches me. My name. Hope that it reaches me.

Surmise this an etymology. My mother had twins and I was conceived before my technical “younger” brother in the most fraternal sense. But my mother thought of the boy she wanted first and miscarried years before and named him for a man she wanted to be our father