How the next week, you clasp your father's gold chain at the back of my neck, call me beautiful in your inside voice, barely breaking a whisper, as if you can't hear the dawn roaring its way through the bedroom window, just to catch a glimpse of us here, barely mortal, shimmering at the cosp of this strange and untamable worldi love this poem for all kinds of reasons. And after the first time i read it, i repeatid to myself, we circle one another as if swordsmen in the low light, over and over cause the words were so delicious to say in that order. It's a diological poem, which is an unnecessarily formal way of saying that it's a poem about a conversation. And the conversation is what wol we call our child. And in the context of that conversation, so much is being held, all the ways in which the name of a child is the naming of a world, their own presence in the world. And it's a curiosity about how the world will look at the child and how the child will look at the world. The characters in this poem are deeply in love, and they emerge so joyfully and fully in combat and dialogue. You know, he says, since we're already on the topic, i casually mention that i think we should name the baby ajax. There's nothing casual about casual here you can get the impression that he's been thinking, when's the right time that i can mention this? And then her reply is magnificent. They know each other so well that he can predict, it seems, that she is likely to disagree entirely with his suggestion. And she laughs and mouths no, and waves her arm in front of her face, complete disagreement and complete joy in their disagreement. And that's one of the really interesting things, you know, she's kind of implying, what on earth were you thinking? Rather than using this as a way to start a catastrophic argument. And here is the presence of great love. Here is the presence of joy in the midst of all the things that they think differently about. There's so much in this poem about how they know each other, like he knows pretty well that she's unlikely to like his suggestion. And then she comes back saying that ajax reminds her of cleaning the bathrooms at her grandmother's.