By J.S. Porter
When
I
lose
your
name,
I
lose
you.
When
you’re
a
wife,
woman
or
mother,
I
lose
your
name.
When
I
lose
your
name,
I
lose
you.
- published in Seven X Seven: An Anthology of Poems, Selected by Peter and Brenda Baltensperger, (Moonstone, 1987).