Homeport by Jehanne Dubrow

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 19, 2015   Homeport   Jehanne Dubrow

Even on weekends the cruiser              would shudder, flicker spaces                          with a redorange blink,   then a gasket crack or a valve stick shut as if by weather or malicious hands,                          the engine room home               of all catastrophe.                             I would stretch and reach across the bed to find furrowed sheets where my husband had slept until 3 a.m.,   when he answered the captain calling,              whose perpetual fury machine was the only system that never broke,   and my husband would yessir to him who was steamingmad on the ship, before slipping into the chill of coveralls,   the blueblack uniform of service,              which in a certain light                           had the confining fit of love.            Copyright © 2015 by Jehanne Dubrow. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “‘Homeport’ comes from my current manuscript-in-progress, ‘Dots & Dashes,’ which serves as a sequel to my third book, Stateside. In Stateside, I examined my experiences as a Navy wife, looking at the before, during, and after of a deployment. This new book tries to find points of intersection between military personnel and (civilian) creative writers, two communities that sometimes struggle to find a common language.” —Jehanne Dubrow   Jehanne Dubrow is the author of The Arranged Marriage (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). She is the director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and teaches at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland.   Photo credit: Cedric Terrell Most Recent Book by Dubrow   The Arranged Marriage (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) "The War After the War" by Debora Greger "Adjectives of Order" by Alexandra Teague "Beside You on Main Street" by Jillian Weise Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038