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Liz Bradfield PRELUDE TO APPROACHING ICE Because this life, this alarm clock time card percolator direct deposit income tax stop light seems vast and blank and numbing. Tell me secret orchids hide between the black rock and the ice. Tell me a wild bird sings deep in the crevasses, wingstrokes cracking air. Tell me there s a surface we can walk on lidding miles of plumed and luminescent fish. I m ready to be amazed. I m longing for it.

Janus Head 149 POLAR EXPLORER JULES SEBASTIAN CESAR DUMONT D URVILLE 1840 For a day he sailed through bergs and along a face of ice. Land? The bellies of penguins, when slit, scattered stones on the deck, a granite morse that said rock grounded what they passed. Adélie Land, he called it. Named not for patron or ruler or favored lieutenant, but wife. an act of justice, a sort of obligation I have fulfilled to give her, after losing three children, after his years away, something to perpetuate my deep and lasting gratitude. Rock had been his fame before. Twenty years earlier, in Greece, a farmer showed him a statue of Venus so beautiful d Urville had to have it for France. Dragging her back to the ship, chased by bandits, her broken arms were left on the rock of Melos. Her body stands still in the Louvre. What did he lose to Antarctica? Time. Men to dysentery and scurvy. The boyhood of his own boy. I wonder what she thinks of it now, standing in her climate-controlled room, the business of hands taken. I like to think she tracked his journey and return, heard among visitors whispers of his end: a train wreck coming home from a day at Versailles with his wife and son. The land, the statue are still where he left them, and each Austral summer his wife s other namesake, a penguin, hunts up stones for its nest, presents them to a mate, steals more from other nests and then, until the chick fledges, guards them as if rightful.

150 Janus Head ON THE LONGING OF EARLY EXPLORERS I would prefer one hour of conversation with a native of terra australis incognita to one with the most learned man in Europe. Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, ~ 1740 Before satellites eyed the earth s whole surface through the peephole of orbit, before we all were tracked by numbers trailing from us like a comet s tail O if only, they d say in quaint accents and obscure sentence structures if only the unsullied could be discovered, if only, once found, it could speak its own nobility and let us empathize. Poignant, the despair that itched beneath their powdered wigs, their longing to touch the unspoiled, their sense that the world was already ruined. [First published in The Gay and Lesbian Review]

Janus Head 151 POLAR EXPLORER ADRIEN DE GERLACHE, FIRST TO WINTER BELOW THE ANTARTIC CIRCLE (1898) What hope at the outset: to put his small nation in the running. To seek a pure and scientific aim untroubled by what his king, Leopold, was seeking in the Congo. The Belgica stuck on purpose? Too proud to say it was error and pride that kept them south too long? There were not enough lamps for the unsunned days. Not enough bags of flour or books. They were trapped in pack ice. North of them, under the same crown, children and wives were hostage to rubber. Bodies dropped in a dark river to become unrecognizable. Easy, there, to lose flesh to rot. Under de Gerlache, a man was buried at sea. They trudged out from the ships s stuck hull, hauling him on a sledge. They hacked a grave, opening ice to the sea below that still moved, teemed, heaved through the Austral winter. A few short words and through them, uneven reports and crackings as the grave was opened again, again to the sea.

And then he was gone to them, though his body would not have gone to bone quickly, chill allowing his flesh to crawled by sea spiders and limpets for years. So was he erased? And were the bodies in the river of Africa erased? No headstones for either but memory. The sea holds them all now. And in the water all have tongues. [First published in the Virginia Quarterly Review]

Janus Head 153 WIVES OF THE POLAR EXPLORERS Some hunk of ice or rock named after them, an address, a memory for the men to write to those cold months, adding to the pages then carrying them home. Adélie d Urville The send-off is where she s most familiar, starched petticoats at dockside attempting to empathize with the ice-filled, cracking sea Eva Nansen her husband s headed for. Good-bye, dear heart if you lose a finger, string it for me as a charm to beckon you home. Lucky if she Kathleen Scott has a fortune s backing because what bills could the cold freight, the new maps, the slim discoveries and rough ventures pay? Josephine Peary In the swelling absence, often, a child born with his nose, his remembered mouth. Of course Lucy Henson the return was worse. His restless, frostbit limp, his early-aged eyes unable to focus in the temperate air, his immediate schemes Emily Shackleton to leave again or the household inspected and the crew found wanting, his command chafing. It could go either way.

154 Janus Head Elizabeth Byrd Either way, no easy slide back into a shared sleep. I missed you, I missed you each would say, trying to understand Liz Bradfield through the strange dialects discovered in separation of solitude, of companionship. Janus Head, 12(1), Copyright 2011 by Trivium Publications, Pittsburgh, PA All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America