I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road.
At night I turn back the clocks;
I open the family album and look at myself as a boy.
This idea of “emptying the names of others” along with “emptying my pockets” relates to death. 
 
 A pocket is something that is used for carrying small personal objects, and in this context Mark uses the emptying of pockets as a metaphor for emptying his life’s work and experiences (he is emptying his remains). Along with emptying his life’s work and experiences through his pockets he is also emptying all of the names of people that he came to know throughout all his life’s work and experiences.
The Remains