this is the black line for your legal name
pie-cutter veins-- pen-leak your legal name

we sat--marble notebook line-conjuring
born blue-retainer teeth to fix a name

your thumb prints migrated to wing-span knees 
abandoned geese inhabit your last name

mother with her furious paperwork--
the birth certificate gnawing your name  

these audacious snow children: self-naming 
fear me black feathered & illegal named