A search
for her name

cannot find
the inflection,

even an otherwise
gift from god is not

acute enough for
the internet.

She is,
therefore,

a loanword
by appellation – so

special – but
I already knew that.

And what is in a designation?
Precisely.

This is the stuff
of looking for

something important to say,
when feeling

just doesn’t
seem enough.

I have been asked how
to spell her name

so many times.
Does it matter?

As often as it has
been requested,

and the accent will always
mean much to me,

I promise,
with a personal é.