Arsenal of Words

Oh heavens, / receive the names. / Oh skies, refuse their erasure. / For the dead— / accounted and unaccounted, named right and named wrong— / are knocking at the gates of memory. / Return their true names to their names. / Give their families closure. — Psalms of the Disappeared

There is no word / for a mother burying her son— / even when the burial / happens only in the mind, / because the body disappeared, / or returned bruised / beyond recognition. — Psalm of the Vilomah