Naming the Rabbits
 
Each time, we peer
with marble-bulging eyes,
wait for the name
to thump its way:
Tilly or Milly, Biff or Bink.
 
And when it comes,
it also comes as one
of mine, one of my multitude,
long-hidden, dark, each one
a dream of fur and moon.
 
My fingers graze
a still-damp ear, my own.

Annette Volfing

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