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Page i The Monarchs A Poem Sequence Alison Hawthorne Deming 1997

Page ii Copyright 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 by Alison Hawthorne Deming All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Designer: Amanda McDonald Key Display typeface: Serlio Text typeface: Adobe Garamond Typesetter: Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Deming, Alison Hawthorne, date. The monarchs : a poem sequence / by Alison Hawthorne Deming. p. cm. ISBN 0-8071-2230-0 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-8071-2231-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Monarch butterflyPoetry. 2. ButterfliesPoetry. 3. Nature Poetry. I. Title. PS3554.E474M66 1997 811'.54dc21 97-23055 CIP The author offers grateful acknowledgment to the editors of the following periodicals, in which poems in this volume appeared previously, some in slightly different form: Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Jackleg, Rio Grande Review, Sonora Review, Third Coast, Wilderness. Poems have also appeared in the The Eloquent Edge: Fifteen Maine Women Writers (Acadia Publishing Co., 1990), Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 1996), and Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology (Island Press, 1995). The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Page iii This book is for my gransons, Lincoln and Raymond, that they may love the family album of Earth's history I am deeply grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, the Island Institute in Sitka, the University of Arizona, and Yaddo for gifts of time that made this work possible. I am indebted to Fred A. Urquhart, Lincoln P. Brower, and Robert Michael Pyle for their work on understanding and preserving monarch butterflies, and to Donald R. Griffin for his work on animal intelligence. Philosopher Julien Murphy furthered my education in the life of the mind and the heart in ways that directly fed this work.

Page v With deep devotion, Nature, did I feel, In that enormous City's turbulent world Of men and things, what benefit I owed To thee, and those domains of rural peace, Where to the sense of beauty first my heart Was opened. William Wordsworth, The Prelude But in the duration of that galactic year we already began to realize that the world's forms had been temporary up until then, and that they would change, one by one. Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

Page 1 1 They hang in Santa Cruz by the hundreds of thousands, shingled over each other like dead leaves high in the eucalyptus grove, unable to move below fifty degrees, but getting here from everywhere west of the Rockies in time to winter out the cold. Their navigation takes sciencean animated scrap of paper flying two thousand miles for the first time each year (a nine-month life) and making it. And art to know to move when the idea strikes. Idea? A butterfly idea? What could be smaller or more franticyet correct. The beauties survive. I like to think the same intelligence, whatever makes the monarchs fly, is at work in my friends who shed jobs and marriages the way a eucalyptus ruptures out of its bark as it grows. Sometimes when I'm driving I forget the car riding thoughts instead into what I should have said when he said, "I guess you just don't want to be married to anyone." Then I look up, there's the sluice of the highway, and I don't know how I got through the last city. It's called unaware memory, what activates when the body just does what it should. No one remembers to accelerate, which muscles to flex. The body just does it because the event is sufficiently rehearsed in the nerves.

Page 2 2 What does intelligence have to do with the mean end of Market Street where the dying pitch tents, unloved and contagious, where the street screamers rail against against against, ones whose inside has become the outside and the sidewalk melts away before their pelting diatribes? I walked by, invisible there, except to the sorry man who approached "I'm not feeling too good today. Can you help me out?" I didn't know if he wanted my money or my mouth, until he teased, "Oh, c'mon... no way?" Safe back in my car, my blue upholstered living room, my little local heaven... stopped at the light, I saw the corner bloom with argumenttwo kids on the way home from high school, the bandannaed longhair pinning his girlfriend to the ground, from where she screamed, ''I don't want you near me!" at first flinging the words in his face, then, "I don't want you NEAR me!" the pitch intensified, reaching for the businessmen who began to slow down along the sidewalk. One ran up, "Let her go." Nothing. Then, "Get OFF her!" Hesitating, a thought of safety, then lifting him like a dog by the back, the kid raging "Who the fuck are you! Who the FUCK are you!"

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