Wisconsin

By new names

and then no names

at all, their laws

will reach your land,

Lorine, to feed

on your much loved

marshy spaces

whose occasional faces

discern a stranger

from far off

but like to take

a break from well

or welding just

to talk. We can-

not extricate

a place from those

it’s made of, the sounds

it makes. But now

from Blackhawk

Island to Madison

to Washington,

geologies

thin; more things

sound or work

the same. Their laws

will reach your land,

Lorine, by new names

then no names at all.