Dana Levin's first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive many honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. A 2004 recipient of both a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and an Emerging Woman Writer's Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Levin teaches in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College and directs the Creative Writing Program at College of Santa Fe. Her latest book, Wedding Day, was published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2005.
Six monarch butterfly cocoons
clinging to the back of your throat—
you could feel their gold wings trembling.
You were alarmed. You felt infested.
In the downstairs bathroom of the family home,
gagging to spit them out—
and a voice saying Don’t, don’t—
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