diff --git a/changelog.d/fixed-301.md b/changelog.d/fixed-301.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df4009e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/fixed-301.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- `pluk send --session=<name>` / `pluk-send --session=<name>` no longer drops a positional text word that happens to equal the session name; the leading positional is treated as the session only when `--session` is absent.
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index 5b6b76b..3c8fdf6 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -355,8 +355,11 @@ function cmdPatterns(args: string[]): void {
 
 function cmdSend(args: string[]): void {
   const { positional, flags } = parseArgs(args);
-  const session = flags['session'] ?? positional[0];
-  const text = flags['text'] ?? positional.slice(session === positional[0] ? 1 : 0).join(' ');
+  // The leading positional is the session only when --session was not given;
+  // deciding by value would drop a text word that happens to equal the name.
+  const sessionFromFlag = flags['session'] !== undefined;
+  const session = sessionFromFlag ? flags['session'] : positional[0];
+  const text = flags['text'] ?? positional.slice(sessionFromFlag ? 0 : 1).join(' ');
 
   if (!session) {
     console.error(`${paintStderr(ANSI_RED, 'Error:')} session name is required`);
diff --git a/test/cli-branches.test.js b/test/cli-branches.test.js
index d89253b..3227c06 100644
--- a/test/cli-branches.test.js
+++ b/test/cli-branches.test.js
@@ -111,6 +111,24 @@ test('pluk-send --session takes all positional args as text', () => {
   assert.deepEqual(calls, ['send-keys -t =agent-q: -- ping pong']);
 });
 
+test('send --session keeps a positional text word equal to the session name', () => {
+  rmSync(tmuxLog, { force: true });
+  const { code } = runCli(['send', '--session=foo', 'foo', 'bar']);
+  assert.equal(code, 0);
+  const calls = readFileSync(tmuxLog, 'utf-8').trim().split('\n');
+  assert.deepEqual(calls, ['send-keys -t =foo: -- foo bar']);
+});
+
+test('pluk-send --session sends a single positional word equal to the session name', () => {
+  const link = join(scratch, 'pluk-send');
+  try { symlinkSync(CLI, link); } catch {}
+  rmSync(tmuxLog, { force: true });
+  const { code } = runCli(['--session=foo', 'foo'], { argv1: link });
+  assert.equal(code, 0);
+  const calls = readFileSync(tmuxLog, 'utf-8').trim().split('\n');
+  assert.deepEqual(calls, ['send-keys -t =foo: -- foo']);
+});
+
 // --- watch: default session, --patterns-dir ------------------------------------
 
 test('watch without a session labels events "stdin" and honors --patterns-dir', () => {