Naming Mesopotamia

Middle of the rivers, between
Tigris and Euphrates draining
Into a Gulf, we won’t say which,

North from Africa and southwest
Of Asia, or southeasterly
Starting from the European

Peninsula, opposite side
Of the globe to Americas,
Other hemisphere, other stars

To those seen from Austronesia.
Are we done yet? No we are not.
There were more names. There will be more

Names, still, call the intersection
What you will. Someone will call it
Something else, for their own reasons,

Mostly like to do with how the world
Appears to them centered on them—
How you got Ur in the first place.