Are you - perhaps - confused?

We don't have the whole story, which means you can't either.

She occurs as many things:

Lydia Wardel
Lydia Perkins 
Lydia Wardell
Lidia Wardell
Lidia Perkins
Wardel
Wardell
Lidia
Wife of Eliakim Wardel
Eliakim Wardell

We do not know when she did what she did.
We know it happened.
We do not know the fear or certainty she felt.
We do not know the fear or certainty they felt watching her.

Like the happening of language on a screen.
Like the fractured sound of a planted spoon on a piano string.
Like corn and Indian saffron boiled, only for their color.

A reach, a reach, a reach. 
Our fingers almost touch.
We almost become.  Almost.

This is an arrangement, a collection,
out of time and sequence:
A Gathering. 

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