[New-Poetry] Shipfitter's Wife

[Amanda Surkont]

One of my favorite poems. Thanks for posting.

best, manda



On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:50:39 -0500, Anny Ballardini  
<anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:

> Poem: "The Shipfitter's Wife" by Dorianne Laux, from Smoke. © BOA  
> Editions. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
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> The Shipfitter's Wife
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> I loved him most
> when he came home from work,
> his fingers still curled from fitting pipe,
> his denim shirt ringed with sweat
> and smelling of salt, the drying weeds
> of the ocean. I'd go to where he sat
> on the edge of the bed, his forehead
> anointed with grease, his cracked hands
> jammed between his thighs, and unlace
> the steel-toed boots, stroke his ankles
> and calves, the pads and bones of his feet.
> Then I'd open his clothes and take
> the whole day inside me - the ship's
> gray sides, the miles of copper pipe,
> the voice of the foreman clanging
> off the hull's silver ribs. Spark of lead
> kissing metal. The clamp, the winch,
> the white fire of the torch, the whistle,
> and the long drive home.
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